Big Bill Broonzy

Aliases: Big Bill
"Big Bill" Broonzy
Big Bill Broonzy and His Big Little Orchestra
Big Bill and His Chicago Five
Big Bill Johnson
Real name: William Lee Conley Broonzy
Born: June 26, 1893
Died: August 15, 1958
Country: United States
IPI: 00004311545 6 works
00136044795 20 works
00136044893 2 works
00220364216 1 work
00220364314 3 works
Affiliation: BMI
Comments: Blues guitarist, singer and songwriter
Member of: State Street Boys
Chicago Sanctified Singers
Harum Scarums (1931)

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Albums

Title	Performer	Release date	Label
An Evening with Big Bill Broonzy	Big Bill Broonzy	1959	Tempo Records
An Evening with Big Bill Broonzy - Blues Vol. II	Big Bill Broonzy	1965	Storyville [DK]
Big Bill Blues	Big Bill Broonzy	1956	Vogue
Big Bill Broonzy	Big Bill Broonzy	1968	Black and Blue
Big Bill Broonzy Sings Folk Songs	Big Bill Broonzy	1962	Folkways
Blues with Big Bill Broonzy, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee	Big Bill Broonzy, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee	1959	Folkways
Country Blues	Big Bill Broonzy	1957	Folkways
Folk Blues	Big Bill Broonzy	1954	EmArcy
Live in Düsseldorf	Big Bill Broonzy and Graeme Bell Australian Jazz Band	1980	Raretone
Studs Terkel's Weekly Almanac - Radio Programme, No. 4 - Folk Music and Blues	Studs Terkel, Big Bill Broonzy and Pete Seeger	1956	Folkways

EPs

Title	Performer	Release date	Label
Big Bill Vol. 1 - An Evening with Big Bill Broonzy	Big Bill Broonzy	August 1957	Tempo Records
Southern Saga	Big Bill Broonzy	February 1958	Nixa [Pye Nixa]
Storyville Blues Anthology Vol. 3	Big Bill Broonzy	1962	Storyville [DK]
Tell Me What Kind of Man Jesus Is	Big Bill Broonzy	1956	Philips
Volume One - Mississippi Blues	Big Bill Broonzy	1955	Nixa [Pye Nixa]

Singles

Title	Performer	Release date	Label
All by Myself	Big Bill	October 1941	OKeh
Black, Brown and White	Big Bill Broonzy	November 1951	Vogue
Black Mare Blues	Big Bill	1937	Conqueror
Bricks in My Pillow	Big Bill	1936	Conqueror
Getting Older Every Day	Big Bill	April 1941	OKeh
Good Liquor Gonna Carry Me Down	Big Bill	January 15, 1936	Bluebird
Hard Headed Woman	Big Bill	1935	Banner [US1]
Hard Hearted Woman	Big Bill and His Chicago Five	May 1942	OKeh
Hey Hey	Big Bill Broonzy	April 1952	Mercury
I Feel So Good	Big Bill	June 1942	OKeh
I Wonder	Big Bill Broonzy	1949	Mercury
I Wonder What's Wrong With Me	Big Bill	1940	OKeh
Just a Dream (On My Mind)	Big Bill	1939	Vocalion [US]
Key to the Highway	Big Bill Broonzy	1941	OKeh
Let Her Go - She Don't Know	Big Bill	1935	Conqueror
Looking up and Down	Big Bill	1940	OKeh
Louise Louise Blues	Big Bill	1937	Conqueror
Mean Old World	Big Bill	July 1937	Melotone
Mistreating Mama Blues	Big Bill	June 1934	Melotone
Moppers Blues	"Big Bill" Broonzy	July 1952	Mercury
New Shake-Em on Down	Big Bill	June 1938	Vocalion [US]
Night Watchman Blues	Big Bill	January 1943	OKeh
Oh Baby	Big Bill Broonzy	1945	Columbia [US]
Oh Yes	Big Bill	November 1939	Vocalion [US]
Play Your Hand	Big Bill	April 1938	Melotone
Preachin' the Blues	Big Bill	September 1939	Vocalion [US]
Prowlin' Ground Hog	Big Bill	1935	Melotone
Selling That Stuff	Big Bill Johnson	1932	Champion [US1]
She Never	Big Bill	June 1939	Vocalion [US]
Shine on, Shine on	Big Bill	July 1941	OKeh
South Bound Train	Big Bill Broonzy	December 1952	Mercury
The Banker's Blues - Try Some of That	Big Bill Johnson - Sam Tarpley	1931	Champion [US1]
Trucking Little Woman	Big Bill	July 1938	Vocalion [US]
Woodie Woodie	Big Bill	July 1939	Vocalion [US]

Performances also appear on

Title	Performer	Release date	Label
Hootenanny with Pete Seeger	Pete Seeger	1959	Folkways
Intolerable Cruelty - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack	various artists	October 27, 2003	Hip-O Records
Jazz Variétés	various artists	1952	Swing

Tributes

	Title	Performer	Release date	Label
	Common Ground - Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin Play and Sing the Songs of Big Bill Broonzy	Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin	June 3, 2014	Yep Roc Records
	Muddy Waters Sings "Big Bill"	Muddy Waters	January 1960	Chess

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