Big Bill Broonzy-”…the best-selling blues singer on Vocalion’s ‘race’ records, which is the musical trade designation for American Negro music that is so good that only the Negro people can be expected to buy it.”
According to Harry “Sweets” Edison, a Trumpeter with the Count Basie Orchestra, attending a concert of Bill in Carnegie Hall, Big Bill was so overwhelmed by the audience response that he failed to move back stage as the curtain came down and got caught in front of it. Later, according to Edison) perhaps not realising he had to do a number in the second half of the concert,he was found to have left the Carnegie Hall and caught a bus home.
Oh man, listen to Big Bill and his Martin model ooo28 on “Tell me who”

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