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Big Bill Broonzy: The Midnight Special – Live in Nottingham, 1957

Larry Jaffee, ORG Music, 2020

IF BLUES LEGEND Big Bill Broonzy (1893-1958) plied his trade in the 21st century, he'd probably be an Uber driver. A gig-economy practitioner in his day, to make ends meet Broonzy was employed as a sharecropper, dishwasher, cook, foundry worker, coal miner, piano mover, college janitor, and preacher. His bosses included an undertaker.

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