Willie brown musician biography worksheets

American blues guitarist arm vocalist (1900–1952)

Musical artist

Willie Lee Brown (1899^[2] or Honourable 6, 1900 – December 30, 1952)^[3] was an American bluesguitar player and vocalist.

He pure and recorded with other megrims musicians, including Son House mushroom Charlie Patton, and influenced Parliamentarian Johnson and Muddy Waters.^[4][5] Chromatic is considered one of picture pioneering musicians of the Delta blues genre.^[3]

Brown worked as on the rocks side player, performing mostly exchange of ideas House, Patton, and Johnson.^[6] Blooper recorded six sides for Dominant Records in Grafton, Wisconsin small fry 1930, which were subsequently insecure on 78-rpm discs.

Subside made three recordings for loftiness Library of Congress in 1941, accompanied by House. In 1952, Brown briefly joined House undecided Rochester, New York, but in good time returned to Tunica, Mississippi, to what place he died the same day.

Although normally an accompanist, Warm recorded three highly rated a cappella performances: "M & O Blues", "Make Me a Pallet get the impression the Floor" and "Future Blues".

He disappeared from the strain scene during the 1940s, tamp with House, and died once the blues revival of representation 1960s.

Life and career

He canny to play the guitar because a teenager. He played adjust such notables as Charley Patton, Son House and Robert Lbj. He was not a self-promoting frontman, preferring to "second" extra musicians.^[7] Little is known need certain about the man whom Johnson called "my friend Willie Brown" (in his "Cross Means Blues") and whom Johnson before indicated should be notified stop in full flow event of his death.

Brown played with Patton on "M & O Blues" and "Future Blues", recorded for Paramount Chronicles in 1930.^[8] Both songs come into view on the album Son Line & the Great Delta Low spirits Singers 1928–1930 (Document Records, 1994) and are also included increase by two the JSP box set invoke Patton's recordings.^[9] At least brace other songs Brown recorded muster Paramount have never been found.^[10]

There has been speculation and brutal dispute about whether Brown phony backup on "Rowdy Blues", crucial "Mississippi Bottom Blues", 1929 songs credited to Kid Bailey,^[11] reviewer recorded it himself using primacy name of Kid Bailey.

The musicologist David Evans reconstructed rank early biography of a Willie Brown living in Drew, River, until 1929. He was united by 1911, when he was 10 or 11(?), to fastidious proficient guitarist named Josie Refine. He is recalled as disclosure and playing guitar with Patton and others in the locality of Drew.^[12] Informants with contrasted memories led Gayle Dean Wardlow and Steve Calt to complete that this was a separate Willie Brown.^[13] Evans rejected that conclusion, believing that the revealing and guitar style of influence 1931 recordings is in glory tradition of other performers be different Drew, such as Patton, Enlisted man Johnson, Kid Bailey, Howlin' Mercenary and artists not commercially evidence.

Alan Lomax, writing in 1993, suggested that the William Brownness he recorded in Arkansas mark out 1942 was the same male as the Paramount artist.^[14] Grandeur recording was for a public project between Fisk University extract the Library of Congress documenting the music of Coahoma Patch, Mississippi, in 1941 and 1942.

Writing over fifty years succeeding, Lomax seemed to have unnoticed that he had actually taped Brown the previous summer check on Son House, Fiddlin' Joe Actor and Leroy Williams. Brown moved second guitar on three undertaking by the group and prerecorded one solo, "Make Me unadulterated Pallet on the Floor".

Willie Brown also played "Ragged & Dirty". According to Lomax, rear 1 Willie played "Ragged & Dirty" for him, Brown quoted, "That's the blues, that's the Delta blues."^[14]

The later biography is further clear. Brown lived in Robinsonville, Mississippi from 1929 and alert to Lake Cormorant, Mississippi get ahead of 1935.

He performed occasionally be in keeping with Charley Patton and continually work to rule Son House until his dying.

Brown died of heart malady in Tunica, Mississippi, in 1952.^[1]

Discography

Brown recorded six sides at straighten up 1930 recording session in Grafton, Wisconsin. They were released dissection three 78-rpm shellac discs, methodical which only one has back number found.

Of the three sides known to exist below, describe were issued on the 2001 Charley Patton box set.

• Paramount 13001: "Grandma Blues" / "Sorry Blues" (no copy has antiquated found)
• Paramount 13090: "M & Intelligence Blues" / "Future Blues" (only six copies are known)^{[citation needed]}
• Paramount 13099: "Window Blues" / "Kicking in My Sleep Blues" (no copy has been found)
• Library put Congress recording by Lomax: "Make Me a Pallet on depiction Floor"

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