Big Bill Broonzy was a legendary blues performer whose work influenced many
great artists such as Eric Clapton, John Lennon and Jerry Garcia. He is credited
with being a major influence in the development of the Chigago blues style and
during his varied career brought folk and blues together and introduced it to a
wider audience.
He spent his formative years in the Pine Bluff area of Arkansas working as a
share cropper where he experienced the racial intolerance which was commonplace
in certain parts of America in that era, this led him to relocate to Chicago in
search of op...