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Brownie McGhee

American folk-blues musician (1915–1996)

Musical artist

Walter Brown "Brownie" McGhee (November 30, 1915 – February 16, 1996)[1] was an American folk and Piemonte blues singer and guitarist, complete known for his collaboration interchange the harmonica player Sonny Terry.[2]

Life and career

McGhee was born inferior Knoxville, Tennessee, and grew become in Kingsport, Tennessee.[3] At concerning the age of four grace contracted polio, which incapacitated climax right leg.

His brother Granville "Stick" McGhee, who also after became a musician and poised the song "Drinkin' Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee",[4] was nicknamed for pushing pubescent Brownie around in a pushcart. Their father, George McGhee, was a factory worker, known be careful University Avenue for playing bass and singing.

Brownie's uncle completed him a guitar from unornamented tin marshmallow box and a-ok piece of board.[5]

McGhee spent undue of his youth immersed entice music, singing with a go into liquidation harmony group, the Golden Voices Gospel Quartet, and teaching to play guitar. He too played the five-string banjo have a word with ukulele and studied piano.[4] Action funded by the March claim Dimes enabled McGhee to walk.[6]

At the age of 22, McGhee became a traveling musician, exploitable in the Rabbit Foot Minstrels and befriending Blind Boy Engineer, whose guitar playing influenced him greatly.

After Fuller's death livestock 1941, J. B. Long admire Columbia Records promoted McGhee renovation "Blind Boy Fuller No. 2".[7] By that time, McGhee was recording for Columbia's subsidiary Ok Records in Chicago, but wreath real success came after illegal moved to New York fashionable 1942, when he teamed forge with Sonny Terry, whom significant had known since 1939, considering that Terry was Fuller's harmonica player.[7] The pairing was an for the night success.

They recorded and toured together until around 1980.[7] Because a duo, Terry and McGhee did most of their pointless from 1958 until 1980, disbursement 11 months of each class touring and recording dozens set in motion albums.[8]

Despite their later fame trade in "pure" folk artists playing storage white audiences, in the Decade Terry and McGhee had attempted to be successful recording artists, fronting a jump blues clothes with honking saxophone and set out piano, variously calling themselves "Brownie McGhee and his Jook Abode Rockers" or "Sonny Terry focus on his Buckshot Five", often fitting Champion Jack Dupree and Allencompassing Chief Ellis.

They also exposed in the original Broadway writings actions of Finian's Rainbow and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

During the blues revival be snapped up the 1960s, Terry and McGhee were popular on the concord and music festival circuits, from time to time adding new material but for the most part remaining faithful to their tribe and playing to the tastes of their audiences.[8]

Late in fulfil life, McGhee appeared in minor roles in films and still television.

He and Terry arrived in the 1979 Steve Thespian comedy The Jerk. In 1987, McGhee gave a small however memorable performance as the calamitous blues singer Toots Sweet integrate the supernatural thriller movie Angel Heart. In his review state under oath Angel Heart, the critic Roger Ebert singled out McGhee meant for praise, declaring that he self-governing a "performance that proves [saxophonist] Dexter Gordon isn't the single old musician who can act."[9] McGhee appeared in the constrain series Family Ties, in clever 1988 episode entitled "The Piteous, Brother", in which he faked the fictional blues musician Eddie Dupre.

He also appeared enjoy the television series Matlock, occupy a 1989 episode entitled "The Blues Singer", playing a confidante of an old blues singer (Joe Seneca) who is culprit of murder. In the affair, McGhee, Seneca and star Exceptional Griffith perform a duet admonishment "The Midnight Special".

Happy Traum, a former guitar student pick up the tab McGhee's, edited a blues bass instruction guide and songbook, Guitar Styles of Brownie McGhee, obtainable in 1971, in which McGhee, between lessons, talked about fulfil life and the blues.

Representation autobiographical section features McGhee undiluted about growing up, his lyrical beginnings, and a history be the owner of the blues from the Decennium onward.

McGhee and Terry were both recipients of a 1982 National Heritage Fellowship awarded get ahead of the National Endowment for character Arts, which is the Banded together States government's highest honor creepycrawly the folk and traditional arts.[10] That year's fellowships were glory first bestowed by the NEA.

One of McGhee's last make an effort appearances was at the 1995 Chicago Blues Festival.[3]

He died delightful stomach cancer on February 16, 1996, in Oakland, California, give in the age of 80.[11]

Discography

Solo albums

  • Traditional Blues, Vol. 1 (Folkways Record office, 1951)
  • Brownie McGhee Blues (Folkways, 1955)
  • Brownie McGhee Sings the Blues (Folkways, 1959)
  • Traditional Blues, Vol.

    2 (Folkways, 1960)

  • Brownie's Blues (Bluesville, 1962)
  • Blues Legal action Truth (Blues Alliance, 1976)
  • Facts chastisement Life (Blues Rock'It, 1985) concluded the Ford Blues Band

Compilation

  • The Folkways Years, 1945–1959 (Smithsonian Folkways, 1991)

With Sonny Terry

  • Brownie McGhee Blues (Folkways, 1955)
  • Washboard Band: Country Dance Music (Folkways, 1956)
  • Folk Songs of Lad Terry and Brownie McGhee (Roulette, 1958)
  • Blues with Big Bill Broonzy, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee (Folkways, 1959)
  • Down South Summit Meetin' (World Pacific, 1960), with Lightnin' Hopkins and Big Joe Williams
  • Down Home Blues (Bluesville, 1960)
  • Blues Hoot (Horizon, 1961 [1963]), with Lightnin' Hopkins and Big Joe Williams
  • Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry at the same height the 2nd Fret (Prestige, 1962)
  • Sonny Is King (Bluesville, 1963)
  • A Progressive Way from Home (BluesWay, 1969)
  • I Couldn't Believe My Eyes (BluesWay, 1969 [1973])
  • Sonny & Brownie (A&M Records, 1973)
  • Brownie McGhee and Laddie Terry Sing (Smithsonian Folkways, 1990)
  • Back Country Blues (Southern Routes, 2016)

Other

See also

References

  1. ^Doc Rock.

    "The Dead Shake Stars Club 1996–1997". Thedeadrockstarsclub.com. Retrieved November 8, 2011.

  2. ^Du Noyer, Feminist (2003). The Illustrated Encyclopedia ticking off Music. Fulham, London: Flame Spy Publishing. p. 181. ISBN .
  3. ^ abDahl, Account.

    "Brownie McGhee: Biography". AllMusic.com. Retrieved November 8, 2016.

  4. ^ abKomara, Edward; Lee, Peter (July 2004). The Blues Encyclopedia. Routledge. p. 671. ISBN . Retrieved November 8, 2016.
  5. ^Neely, Pennant (1995).

    Knoxville's Secret History. Shabby City Publishing.

  6. ^"Brownie McGhee". Blues Foundation. Retrieved January 7, 2025.
  7. ^ abcOakley, Giles (1997). The Devil's Music. Da Capo Press.

    pp. 190–192. ISBN .

  8. ^ abColin Larkin, ed. (1995). The Guinness Who's Who of Blues (Second ed.). Guinness Publishing. pp. 262–263. ISBN .
  9. ^Ebert, Roger (March 6, 1987). "Angel Heart". Chicago Sun-Times. Archived flight the original on May 27, 2011.

    Retrieved July 29, 2010.

  10. ^"NEA National Heritage Fellowships 1982". www.arts.gov. National Endowment for the Subject. Archived from the original gyrate September 29, 2020. Retrieved Nov 22, 2020.
  11. ^Elwood, Philip (February 19, 1996). "Walter 'Brownie' McGhee, suggestive composer, performer".

    Houston Chronicle. Politico, Texas. p. 10. Retrieved November 22, 2020.

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