BIG BILL BROONZY STORY MONO NM 5LP BOX SET DG VERVE
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Click on photos to enlarge BIG BILL BROONZY (Box Set)
The Big Bill Broonzy Story
MG-V-3000-5
Mono Verve Records
Deep Groove
THIS VINTAGE, COLLECTIBLE ALBUM IS PART OF A LARGE PRIVATE COLLECTION CONTAINING MANY RARE RECORDS IN REMARKABLY FINE CONDITION. I WILL BE OFFERING 100s OF THESE CAREFULLY PRESERVED LP's OVER THE NEXT FEW MONTHS. MOST WILL BE LISTED IN MY STORE WITH A 'BEST OFFER' OPTION. PLEASE BOOKMARK MY SELLER NAME -Vintage Vinyl Plus to your favorites list! - AND CONTINUE TO WATCH FOR MY eBAY STORE LISTINGS AND AUCTIONS AS I WILL ADDING ALBUMS EACH WEEK. THANKS FOR LOOKING.
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Hopkins, Hooker, Howlin' Wolf, Lightnin' Slim, , Champion Jack Dupree, Big Maybelle, Big Bill Broonzy, Bluesville LP's, Arhoolie, more.....
Vinyl: Disc 1: mint, Disc 2: Mint-, Disc 3: VG++, Disc 4: Mint-, Disc 5: Near mint. (Visually Graded)
ALBUM COVER:VG+. Has some light wear, and the bottom edge is split (Click on pics to enlarge).
This 5-lp set was a product of three recording sessions, held on July 12 and 13, 1957, immediately before Broonzy entered the hospital for surgery on the lung cancer that would end his career and take his life just a year later. He sounds in good enough spirits, and the voice and guitar are still in excellent form as he runs through the songs that evidently mattered most to him on those two days: "Key to the Highway," "Take This Hammer," "See See Rider," "Alberta," "Frankie and Johnny," "In the Evening (When the Sun Goes Down)," "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot," and more than two dozen others. Producer Bill Randle didn't get a lot of the songs he'd hoped to record, such as "Stack O Lee" and "Night Time Is the Right Time," which Broonzy didn't want to sing, but he got enough for five LPs' worth of music out of the ten hours of recordings. (Did the rest survive, one wonders, and might there be anything that was left off that's worth hearing?) The sound is state of the art, with the singer and his solo acoustic guitar clean and close. The set is a vital and important document, as well as great listening, not only for the music but for Broonzy's between-song banter -- he was one of the great raconteurs of the blues -- although it isn't quite as indispensable as one might think.
· ORIGINAL U.S. PRESSING
· DEEP GROOVE PRESSING
· ORIGINAL BLUE VERVE LABEL WITH SILVER PRINT .
· EACH SLEEVE TELLS A LITTLE ABOUT BIG BILL AND HAS LYRICS AS WELL.
· THIS IS THE ORIGINAL, AUTHENTIC, FIRST U.S. PRESSING; THIS IS NOT A REISSUE, AN IMPORT, OR A COUNTERFEIT PRESSING.
· THICK, HEAVY VINYL PRESSING
· CLEAN, WEAR-FREE LABELS
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(?PLEASE SEE THE IMAGE OF THE COVER, LABEL OR BOTH, SHOWN BELOW)
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In States
USPS Media Mail - 4.00 usd.
USPS Priority Mail - 9.00 usd.
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Priority Mail International
Worldwide 38.00 usd.
Canada 25.00 usd.
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Big Bill Broonzy (26 June 1898 – 15 August 1958) was a prolific American blues singer, songwriter and guitarist. His career began in the 1920s when he played country blues to mostly black audiences. Through the ‘30s and ‘40s he successfully navigated a transition in style to a more urban blues sound popular with white audiences. In the 1950s a return to his traditional folk-blues roots made him one of the leading figures of the emerging American folk music revival and an international star. His long and varied career marks him as one of the key figures in the development of blues music in the 20th century.
Broonzy copyrighted more than 300 songs during his lifetime, including both adaptations of traditional folk songs and original blues songs. As a blues composer, he was unique in that his compositions reflected the many vantage points of his rural-to-urban experiencesprice rating
