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"This book sets Bill's extraordinary life and career in meticulously researched perspective. . . . If rock 'n' roll and all its recent spawn can in any sense be regarded as art, or carries any social meaning, or transmits reflective or historical relevance to those who love it, this book will help to explain why."
--Pete Townshend"Bob Riesman has dug hard and deep into a world and a community to which few outsiders have been granted entrance. . . . This is the kind of book so engaging it simply leaves you wanting more."
--Peter Guralnick, from the Foreword"Riesman does an excellent job of sifting through conflicting accounts of Broonzy's marital and workforce history, often presenting multiple sides of the tales. He used a bewildering array of sources to help draw his conclusions, going through numerous archives, museums and music societies, as well as talking to those who were there for another point of view. . . . This book perceptively tells it all."
--Downbeat"Compelling. . . . An important contribution to the literature of the blues as well as Chicago musical history."
-- (05/01/2011)"I knew Big Bill Broonzy in the 1940s and '50s, near the end of his life. He was a great man, and one of the great musical artists of the twentieth century, as well as an intellectual, a term usually given to college people. I think he was genuinely reaching out all his life to different people. If it's possible to put his story into words, Bob Riesman has done it in this book."
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