BIG BILL BROONZY 1st UK PHILIPS 1958 AwEsOmE ToP AuDiO DeLtA BlUeS

	£		262
	$		347

BIG BILL BROONZY ''Big Bill Broonzy''

1st UK pressing! Philips (Minigroove) record labels Cat No. BBL 713. 1957 ((mono))

Impossible Barely played 55 years old like this!

Rarely ever seen in this condition!

Another from my personal collection! This rare original UK pressing was released in 1957 aproximately one year before Big Bill Broozy's death in 1958! Very rare and scarce to find, especially in this awesome condition! The awesome very thick chunky and heavy slab of vinyl looks barely ever played and on visual inspection of the playing surface of the vinyl it is also hard for me to even see a blemish! Importantly there are no loud clicks or pops during the play of this vinyl! Incredibly rare any interference is minimal in the form of light static/ crackle heard in some places! The original 1st issue fully laminated cover is also in exceptional condition and has certainly stood the test of time considering this is also 55 years old! The most important thing is the audio quality is superb concidering that the  recording would have been taken from tape and mastered to vinyl back in the 50s. Rare and scarce delta blues album!

Big Bill Broonzy (June 26, 1903 – August 15, 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 experiences

Born Lee Conley Bradley, "Big Bill" was one of Frank Broonzy (Bradley) and Mittie Belcher's 17 children. His birth site and date are disputed. While he claimed birth in Bolivar County, Mississippi, an entire body of emerging research suggests that Broonzy was actually born in Jefferson County, Arkansas. Broonzy claimed he was born in 1893 and many sources report that year, but after his death, family records suggested that the year was actually 1903. Soon after his birth the family moved to Pine Bluf Arkansas, where Bill spent his youth. He began playing music at an early age. At the age of 10 he made himself a fiddle from a cigar box and learned how to play spirituals and folk songs from his uncle, Jerry Belcher. He and a friend named Louis Carter, who played a homemade guitar, began performing at social and church functions. These early performances included playing at "two-stages": picnics where whites danced on one side of the stage and blacks on the other.

On the understanding that he was born in 1898 rather than earlier or later, sources suggest that in 1915, 17-year-old Broonzy was married and working as a sharecropper. He had decided to give up the fiddle and become a preacher. There is a story that he was offered $50 and a new violin if he would play four days at a local venue. Before he could respond to the offer, his wife took the money and spent it, so he had to play. In 1916 his crop and stock were wiped out by drought. Broonzy went to work locally until he was drafted into the Army in 1917. Broonzy served two years in Europe during the first world war. Then after his discharge from the Army in 1919, Broonzy returned to Pine Bluff, Arkansas where he is reported to have been called a racial epithet and told by a white man he knew before the war that he needed to "hurry up and get his soldier uniform off and put on some overalls." He immediately left Pine Bluff and moved to the Little Rock area but a year later in 1920 moved north to Chicago in search of opportunity.

Broonzy's own influences included the folk music, spirituals, work songs, ragtime music, hokum and country blues he heard growing up, and the styles of his contemporaries, including Jimmie Rodgers, Blind Blake, Son House, and Blind Lemon Jefferson. Broonzy combined all these influences into his own style of the blues that foreshadowed the post-war Chicago blues sound, later refined and popularized by artists such as Muddy Waters and Willie Dixon.

Although he had been a pioneer of the Chicago blues style and had employed electric instruments as early as 1942, his new, white audiences wanted to hear him playing his earliest songs accompanied only by his own acoustic guitar, since this was considered to be more "authentic".

A considerable part of his early ARC/CBS recordings have been reissued in anthology collections by CBS-Sony, and other earlier recordings have been collected on blues reissue labels, as have his later European and Chicago recordings of the 1950s. The Smithsonian's Folkways Records has also released several albums featuring Big Bill Broonzy.

In 1980, he was inducted into the first class of the Blues Hall of Fame along with 20 other of the world's greatest blues legends. In 2007, he was inducted into the first class of the Gennett Records Walk of Fame along with 11 other musical greats including Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Gene Autry, Lawrence Welk and others.

Broonzy as an acoustic guitar player, inspired Muddy Waters, Memphis Slim, Ray Davies, John Renbourn, Rory Gallagher, Ben Taylor, and Steve Howe

In Q Magazine (September 2007) it is reported that Ronnie Wood of The Rolling Stones claims that Bill Broonzy's track, "Guitar Shuffle", is his favorite guitar music. Wood said, "It was one of the first tracks I learnt to play, but even to this day I can't play it exactly right."

During the benediction at the 2009 inauguration ceremony of President Barack Obama, the civil rights leader Rev. Dr. Joseph Lowery paraphrased Broonzy's song "Black, Brown and White Blues"

Side One:

B Man
Texas Tornado
Tell Me What Kind Of Man Jesus Ts
trouble In Mind
See See Rider

Side Two

When I've been drinkin*
Martha
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
Key To The Highway
Goodbye Baby Blues

The Matrix

Side 1. ''A 08102.1L.2.''

Side 2.''AA 08102.2L.2''

The Mother Stampers

Side 1.''VV'' VV ''

Side 2.''V'' ''V''''

The Vinyl

This is the original typical thick heavy and chunky slab of vinyl only found like this on the earliest pressings! This lays perfectly flat on the turntable and id free of any warps! On initial inspection the vinyl looks absolutely stunning in fact I find it hard to even see a blemish on the playing surface! Any marks that could possibly be seen angled to the light would be Light whyspy sleeve removal lines only,, importantly there are no deep scratches or marks that would cause any loud constant clicks or pops!

The Audio Quality

I have play tested this vinyl three times prior to this listing at very loud volume on a top system!,, Importantly using a dedicated mono cartride! Important note! Allowances must be made for the fact that the audio was taken from early 1950s and were probably pressed from the original master tapes of course mastered in glorious mono! The audio is clear and very vibrant throughout and this plays through with out any distortion! Typical blues basey feel! There were light isolated static type crackle/ ticks that I noticed in some iolated places and nothing too detrimetal to the awesome audio quality effect in my opinion! Importantly i heard no annoying loud constant clicks or pops! The fact that this vinyl has obviously barely ever been played makes all the difference concidering this is an asstounding 54 years old is quite amaizing! I would rate the audio at least excellent if not much better in my opinion (minor static crackle/ ticks only)!

The Labels

These are the original 'Philips (minigroove)' Records labels (only 1st UK press) nice and clean. Amaizingly it is hard for me to see any spidering see angled to the light only. Little if no spindle ware the hole is perfectly round and tight on the spindle. 

The Record Sleeve

This is the original poly lined Decca Sleeve issued with this album. It is in exceptional condition no splits or tares just light creasing with age no real yellowing very clean!

The Cover

This is the original fully laminated front and rear, rear flipbacked cover. Printed in  England' features ''Philips Electrical Limited London'  at the bottom rear flip back! The condition, again is exceptional for a 54 year old cover. This is strong, tidy and straight without any edge splits or tares super glosssy in appearance. Amaizingly I can't see any real creases to mention  There is some light laminate lifting beginning at the opening edge and at the corners this is becoming very fragile.  (see photos) At the rear the flipbacks are slightly unstuck in the corners and there is slight nibbling damage of one flipback at the very corner bottom left. noticed if looked for. I dought that you will see a better looking original of this cover than this one after 55 years, This is certainly the best one that I have seen on offer on the internet!

Exceptional condition in my opinion must grade at least excellent!  

HOW I SEND MY RECORDS!

THIS ALBUM WILL BE SENT IN A LARGE BOX WITH CARDBOARD STIFFENERS THE ALBUM IS ALWAYS PUT IS A POLY SLEEVE AND ENCASED IN THE BOX WITH PLENTY OF BUBBLEWRAP FOR ADDED PROTECTION (SEE PHOTOS)

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