Delta Blues Guitar Lesson: Big Bill Broonzy, Hey Hey..covered by Eric Clapton MDBG

Big Bill Broonzy (26 June 1898 14 August 1958) was a prolific African 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.

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Music

Tags:

• Delta
• Blues
• Guitar
• Fingerstyle
• Acoustic
• Big
• Bill
• Broonzy
• Eric
• Clapton

[vajraloka1]

i think you got that low e string flat on purpose ? it sounds better. for that bass line

[vajraloka1]

keeping that thumb going, yikes! not easy fo me

[OriginalFroggyNZ]

thanks good instructions. um but your low E string is flat

[noif97490]

Putain c'est de la merde, le type est trop mauvais, il chante tellement mal... Merci de m'avoir perdre mon temps.

[TheBluesBeggar]

I don't think your tab pdf file is working either. I'd like to try the song out... can you fix your link (or is it me?)

[TheBluesBeggar]

I like the lesson... but I couldn't give it a thumbs up... It's great stuff but I didn't think you were as clear as you could be on calling out the strings and frets.

[whitestripebuzz]

Thanks a million.

[Oldking3]

excellent - thanks.

Are you going to post the turn around soon ??

[ElliotWoolf]

Great stuff. Thanks for uploading this.