Talk:Big Bill Broonzy

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Big Bill Broonzy article.
Please sign and date your posts by typing four tildes (~~~~). Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic. New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Ask questions, get answers. This is not a forum for general discussion about the article's subject.	Be polite Assume good faith No personal attacks Be welcoming	Article policies No original research Neutral point of view Verifiability

This article is within the scope of the following WikiProjects:

WikiProject Biography     (Rated Start-Class) This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography. For more information, visit the project page. Biography Portal Start This article has been rated as start-Class on the project's quality scale. [FAQ] This article is supported by WikiProject Musicians, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed biographical guide to musicians and musical groups on Wikipedia. It is requested that a picture or pictures of this person be included in this article to improve its quality. WikiProject Guitarists (Rated start-Class) This article is part of WikiProject Guitarists, a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to guitarists. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion. Start This article has been rated as start-Class on the quality scale. WikiProject Chicago      (Rated Stub-Class) Chicago Portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Chicago, which aims to improve all articles related to Chicago. Stub This article has been rated as Stub-class on the quality scale. Low This article has been rated as low-importance on the importance scale. WikiProject Roots, Folk, and Traditional music     (Rated Start-Class) Music Portal Big Bill Broonzy is within the scope of WikiProject Roots music, an attempt to build a comprehensive guide on Wikipedia to roots music, folk music and traditional music. If you would like to participate, you can edit this article, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion. If you are new to editing Wikipedia visit the welcome page so as to become familier with the guidelines. Start This article has been rated as Start-Class on the Project's quality scale. (If you rated the article please give a short summary at comments to explain the ratings and/or to identify the strengths and weaknesses.) Mid This article has been rated as Mid-importance on the Project's quality scale. Related work groups: Chicago folk task force

I've removed the References needed tag from the article. Please put it back if you think there's not been enough improvementDarrell Wheeler (talk) 11:22, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Influences and style

I've done a lot of work on the Life and career section. I've pretty much been leaving the bits I've not used kind of drifting to the bottom of the article. as a consequence it's starting to look a real mess. I did try to write a referenced intro to the section. I have memory of seeing Eric clapton on some TV program talking about Big bill broonzy. In the program he was noting that while he is associated with the songs of R. Johnson it was realy the playing of Broonzy and the impact of seeing him perform live when Eric was a young teenager that realy motivated him to want to learn the blues in the first place. Does anyone out there in wikiland recall such a thing? maybe have it on DVD?Darrell Wheeler (talk) 11:22, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

I replaced the link to Jimmie Rodgers (country musician) with one to Jimmy Rogers (blues musician). I thought it's more likely that it was Rogers who influenced Broonzy. Does anyone know which is correct? Zariane (talk) 12:14, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

I'm guessing it's Jimmie rodgers who was his influence Not Jimmy. Check Jimmy's birth date to see why. If you think that makes sense. I'ld revert the edit.Darrell Wheeler (talk) 07:39, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

I think you are right, and I've changed it back to Rodgers - thanks. Zariane (talk) 23:34, 10 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Discography

The "discography" is just a list of album reissues. Isn't there a proper discography that could be linked, showing actual release dates?

Don't know. Is there? Perhaps you could find out, and edit the page accordingly.