Broonzy

British  

/ ˈbruːnzɪ /

noun

1. William Lee Conley , called Big Bill . 1893–1958, US blues singer and guitarist

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Example Sentences

I like the expansive non-definition proposed by the singer-songwriter and guitarist Big Bill Broonzy, as quoted by Bradley: “Some people call these ‘folk songs,’” he said onstage once.

From New York Times

Scott Barretta, a blues historian based in Greenwood, Miss., likened Rush’s success with white audiences to the second act Big Bill Broonzy had in the ’50s, after transitioning from urban to folk-blues and receiving support from white taste makers Studs Terkel and Alan Lomax.

From New York Times

Indeed, in one of those flashbacks the author throws the young Jasper together with the real-life blues legend Big Bill Broonzy, who lived in the Netherlands in the 1950s and here warns the youth that “the blues is a language you can’t lie in.”

From New York Times

Some criticized his prayer at Mr. Obama’s inauguration, which borrowed from the Big Bill Broonzy song “Black, Brown and White Blues.”

From New York Times

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.

From Literature