Brownie McGhee
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Brownie McGhee was born Walter McGhee in Knoxville, TN, November 30, 1915. He grew up on a small, family run farm near Kingsport , TN, learning a love for music at the hands of his father, a local singer-guitarist who used to play at dances and parties, often bringing his young son with him. Brownie was stricken with polio at the age of four, from which he fully recovered, with the exception of a noticeable limp that affected him all his life.
He wore a shoe with a two-inch sole to provide his legs with equality of length. It was this misfortune that prevented him from having to help around the farm and enabled him to dedicate more time to pursuing his passion, music. As a child he would listen to his father and uncle play, learning from them the rudimentary skills of stringed instruments. He fine tuned his skills on his father’s guitar and was playing his own hand-made banjo by age eight. He also experimented with the piano and church organ.
After his freshman summer of high school, Brownie decided to drop out of school and see what kind of life he could make for himself on the road as a traveling guitarist. He followed Hagg’s carnival, medicine shows, and the Rabbit’s Foot minstrel show.
He was forced to return to the farm to help out his family as best he could in the early 1930s. But he was never far from the music scene. He played locally, forming a number of bands and honing his skills as a bluesman. But by the end of the decade, he was ready to return to life on the road, owing explanations to no one, playing on street corners and hustling for a living.
After his freshman summer of high school, Brownie decided to drop out of school and see what kind of life he could make for himself on the road as a traveling guitarist. He followed Hagg’s carnival, medicine shows, and the Rabbit’s Foot minstrel show.
He was forced to return to the farm to help out his family as best he could in the early 1930s. But he was never far from the music scene. He played locally, forming a number of bands and honing his skills as a bluesman. But by the end of the decade, he was ready to return to life on the road, owing explanations to no one, playing on street corners and hustling for a living.
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jazzthieve
Spotify playlist Blues: Chicago Blues, Delta Blues, Electric Blues, Jump Blues, Piedmont Blues
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DeJMoreno
It's the bluesss!
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DeucesAreWild
i think there's both some chicago in that piedmont style of his, also lots o' harmonica
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mothertruker
music to smoke and make love. not necessarily in that order.
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This IS cool !
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