| LC control no. | n 81127864 |
|---|---|
| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | McDowell, Fred |
| Variant(s) | McDowell, Fred, 1904-1972 McDowell, Mississippi Fred Mississippi Fred McDowell |
| Other standard no. | 0b9459d7-205b-4e56-bd22-e3b32b75b685 134451198 8d2651e1-f539-4492-957a-8b4dc4c5d9b9 49413887 Q964219 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Como (Miss.) |
| Birth date | 1904-01-12 |
| Death date | 1972-07-03 |
| Place of birth | Rossville (Tenn.) |
| Place of death | Memphis (Tenn.) |
| Field of activity | Blues (Music) Agriculture |
| Affiliation | Capital records (Firm) |
| Profession or occupation | Composers Blues musicians Singers Guitarists |
| Found in | My home is in the Delta. [Phonodisc] 1965? His Levee camp blues [SR] 1980?: container (Fred McDowell; b. ca. 1906, Rossville, Tenn.) His A dose of double dynamite [SR] p1985: label (Mississippi Fred McDowell) Santelli, R. Big book of blues, 2001 (McDowell, Mississippi Fred; b. Jan. 12, 1904, Rossville, Tenn., d. July 3, 1972, Memphis, Tenn.) Social Security death index on Ancestry.com, Aug. 23, 2001 (Fred McDowell; b. Jan. 12, 1906, d. July 1972) Information from 678 converted Dec. 15, 2014 (Mississippi blues singer and guitarist; d. 7/3/72) American National Biography Online, accessed March 03, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (McDowell, Mississippi Fred; Fred McDowell; songwriter, blues musician, singer, guitarist, jazz musician; born 12 January 1904 in Rossville, Tennessee, United States; attended country dances, where he would sing rather than play guitar; moved to Mississippi for good sometime around 1940; made his festival debut at the University of Chicago Folk Festival (1963); recorded extensively for both American and European labels, including Capital which produced his 1969 Grammy-nominated album I Do Not Play No Rock and Roll; toured briefly with the Rolling Stones; widely considered the most important new rural blues discovery of the 1960s; died 03 July 1972 in Memphis, Tennessee, United States) Wikipedia September 19, 2023: (McDowell was born in Rossville, Tennessee, United States. Seeking a change from plowing fields, he moved to Memphis in 1926, where he worked in the Buck-Eye feed mill... He finally settled in Como, Mississippi, in 1940 or 1941 (or maybe the late 1930s), where he worked as a full-time farmer for many years while continuing to play music on weekends at dances and picnics.) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi_Fred_McDowell> |
| Associated language | eng |
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