Big Bill Broonzy scattered more than musical notes as he traveled, and at the end of this otherwise meticulously researched and fact-filled biography, Bob Riesman throws up his hands and declares that "a full reckoning of the number and identities of Big Bill Broonzy's children . . . remains, for now, an unfinished task."Perhaps because he made so many of them, Big Bill was notably good with children, his own and others'. Patient and kind, he always took time to sing to them when he played at a party or stayed overnight at someone's home during his ceaseless travels during an era when no black person, much less a blues singer, was welcome at most hotels.
from David Kirby: The Wall Street Journal: The Ghost in Rock 'n' Roll
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