Thanks. nice.
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Genuine negro blues in the style the negro likes. Be sure to demonstrate this record to every negro that comes to your counter. Tell them it is made by a real negro - ARC 1931 dealer sheet plugging a Collins release, quoted by Chris Smith, notes from Yazoo's Crying Sam Collins, Jail House Blues
0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic. I would love to know who his students were and if any of them are adept players of his stuff.
Good point, O'Muck. You hear often enough of this or that student of Rev. Gary Davis, but I can't recall hearing from anyone who took lessons from Broonzy. Looks like he opened the school though:
http://www.oldtownschool.org/history/night.html Uncle Bud, thanks for the link -- that was really interesting.
There are some cool photos of Big Bill (& others) at Old Town School recently published in the book Chicago Folk: Images of the Sixties Music Scene
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