Guitar virtuoso Kenny Wayne Shepherd pays tribute to his musical forefathers while continuing to innovate and inspire ...

The Diddley shout-out makes particular sense here, since Clapton fills out his Unplugged set with blues songs that always inspired him – from Bessie Smith, Big Bill Broonzy, Robert Johnson ...

The Grammy-nominated blues guitarist has been researching unrecognized women of the guitar world since 2001. Her latest album, One Guitar Woman, is a tribute to some of the greatest ...

The Diddley shout-out makes particular sense here, since Clapton fills out his Unplugged set with blues songs that always inspired him – from Bessie Smith, Big Bill Broonzy, Robert Johnson ...

I think it was Big Bill Broonzy who used to sing “I Feel So Good,” a really joyful song about a man who is on his way to the railroad station to meet his girl. She’s coming home. It is the ...

However, it set him on the path he’d follow for the rest of his life. Discovering ‘Whoopin’ and Holerin’’ led Clapton almost directly to Big Bill Broonzy, one of the godfathers of blues guitar—an ...

You’d hear the occasional Lead Belly song or Big Bill Broonzy or Check Berry, you know?” But it was legendary blues artist Robert Johnson’s crossroad blues that flipped the switch. Clapton named it ...

Women weren’t limited to singing, either: Memphis Minnie’s guitar style adapted from the classic to the electric blues era, and, in 1933, she once beat Big Bill Broonzy in a guitar contest ...

I Feel So Good is the first full biography of one of these major figures. Big Bill Broonzy was born in 1903 into a large and extremely poor family of share croppers in Arkansas. Bob Riesman points out ...