BROONZY, WILLIAM LEE CONLEY (BIG BILL
). Bluesman ( in Scott, Mississippi; in Chicago, Illinois). He played on homemade string instruments when he was a child. His family moved to Arkansas, where he listened to older relatives singing many kinds of folksongs. After service in the armed forces during World War I, he settled in Chicago in 1920, where he played blues guitar professionally for the first time. Reputedly taught by banjoist
(Papa
) Charlie Jackson
, Broonzy...