I Feel So Good: The Life and Times of Big Bill Broonzy
Date: Wed. July 20, 2011
Time: 6:00 pm
Location:
Harold Washington Library Center
Cindy Pritzker Auditorium
400 S. State Street
60605
Program: Adult Summer Learning Challenge
About this event:
Join Bob Riesman, film producer and author of I Feel So Good: The Life and Times of Big Bill Broonzy. A major figure in American blues and folk music, Broonzy (1903–1958) was the leading Chicago bluesman of the 1930s. Success came as he fused traditional rural blues with the electrified sound just beginning to emerge. This was just one step in his remarkable journey: Big Bill was constantly reinventing himself, both in reality and in his retellings of it. Riesman’s groundbreaking biography tells the compelling life story of a lost figure from the annals of music history.
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