Brownie McGhee

Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee – Sing and Play (1965/2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

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Sonny Terry, Brownie McGhee - Sing and Play (1965/2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

Saunders Teddell, or Saunders Terrell (or other variants, sources differ) (October 24, 1911 – March 11, 1986), known as Sonny Terry, was an American Piedmont blues and folk musician, who was known for his energetic blues harmonica style, which frequently included vocal whoops and hollers and occasionally imitations of trains and fox hunts.
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Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee – Working Man Blues (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee were performing together since 1939 – probably longer than any working blues or folk duo or group. The brand of blues that Mr. Terry and Mr. McGhee learned to play has been called Piedmont blues after the region in the Southeast. Unlike the blues performers of Mississippi and Texas, many of whom grew up in rigidly segregated societies and played exclusively for blacks, Piedmont bluesmen often lived near whites and learned to play a variety of tunes – ragtime, gospel, ballads, old minstrel show songs, even white hoedown music in addition to blues. Disc One reflects two separate sessions; the first recorded in the late ’50s and represents their acoustic blues. The second session was recorded in one three hour studio booking in Germany while on tour. Disc Two consists of two live concerts from 1974, previously unreleased.

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Brownie Mcghee – No Stranger To The Blues (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Brownie Mcghee - No Stranger To The Blues (2023) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz] Download

McGhee was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and grew up in Kingsport, Tennessee. At about the age of four he contracted polio, which incapacitated his right leg. His brother Granville “Stick” McGhee, who also later became a musician and composed the famous song “Drinkin’ Wine Spo-Dee-o-Dee,”was nicknamed for pushing young Brownie around in a cart. Their father, George McGhee, was a factory worker, known around University Avenue for playing guitar and singing. Brownie’s uncle made him a guitar from a tin marshmallow box and a piece of board.

McGhee spent much of his youth immersed in music, singing with a local harmony group, the Golden Voices Gospel Quartet, and teaching himself to play guitar. He also played the five-string banjo and ukulele and studied piano. Surgery funded by the March of Dimes enabled McGhee to walk.
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Brownie Mcghee – Steady With The Blues (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz]

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Brownie Mcghee - Steady With The Blues (2022) [Official Digital Download 24bit/44,1kHz] Download

American folk music and Piedmont blues singer and guitarist, best known for his collaboration with the harmonica player Sonny Terry.
Born: November 30, 1915 in Knoxville, Tennessee
Died: February 16, 1996 in Oakland, California
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Brownie McGhee – Southern Train (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz]

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Brownie McGhee - Southern Train (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/192kHz] Download

Walter McGhee was a Piedmont blues singer and guitarist, well known for his collaboration with the harmonica player Sonny Terry.

On this new high-resolution release, we are asked to consider the music of Brownie McGhee, characterised by easy, flowing guitar and the warmest voice in the blues, instantly recognisable. It’s a voice astonishingly rich in texture, although he can give it a cutting edge when the material demands it, and its expressive tonal qualities have even improved over the years, as these 1971 performances show.
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