| LC control no. | n 82234801 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | McGhee, Brownie, 1915-1996 |
| Variant(s) | McGhee, Walter Brown, 1915-1996 McGhee, Walter Brown, 1914- Blind Boy Fuller #2, 1915-1996 Blind Boy Fuller Number Two, 1915-1996 Johnson, Henry, 1915-1996 Spider Sam, 1915-1996 Tennessee Gabriel, 1915-1996 Williams, Blind Boy, 1915-1996 Blind Boy Fuller No. 2, 1915-1996 Fuller, Blind Boy, 1915-1996 |
| Located | New York (N.Y.) |
| Birth date | 1915-11-30 |
| Death date | 1996-02-16 |
| Place of birth | Knoxville (Tenn.) |
| Place of death | Oakland (Calif.) |
| Field of activity | Blues (Music) Folk music |
| Affiliation | OKeh Records (Firm) House of Blues School (Harlem, New York, N.Y.) |
| Profession or occupation | Blues musicians Guitarists |
| Found in | His You hear me talkin' [SR] p1978: label (Brownie McGhee) LC manual auth. cd. (hdg.: McGhee, Walter Brown, 1914- ) Washington Post, 02-21-96 obit. (Brownie McGhee, 80, guitarist and blues musician, d. 02-16-96 in Oakland, Calif.; b. Nashville, Tenn.) Encyclopedia of the blues, 1992 (Brownie McGhee, b. 1915) All music guide WWW site, Feb. 21, 2006 (Brownie McGhee; b. Walter Brown McGhee, Nov. 30, 1915, Knoxville, TN, d. Feb. 23 [sic], 1996, Oakland, CA) Classic blues from Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, p2003: container (Brownie McGhee) insert (Walter Brown McGhee; born 1915 in Knoxville, Tennessee; died 1996; after the death of his idol, Blind Boy Fuller, McGhee briefly took the name Blind Boy Fuller #2; by his own account, he used the name Blind Boy Fuller Number Two on Columbia, Henry Johnson on Decca, Spider Sam on Atlantic, and Tennessee Gabriel on Circle; when he played piano he was Blind Boy Williams; moved to New York in the early 1940s and teamed up with harmonica ace Sonny Terry, working with him into the mid-1970s) Oxford music online, August 6, 2014: Encyclopedia of popular music (McGhee, Brownie; born Walter Brown McGhee, November 30, 1915, Knoxville, Tennessee; died February 16, 1996, Oakland, California; blues singer and guitarist; in 1939 he met Sonny Terry, with whom he formed a partnership that lasted until the mid-1970s; retired to Oakland, California) Allmusic.com, August 6, 2014 (Brownie McGhee; born November 30, 1915, Knoxville, TN; died February 16, 1996, Oakland, CA; folk-blues singer-guitarist; leading Piedmont-style bluesman; in the period following World War II, he also recorded electric blues and R&B on the New York scene; recorded as Blind Boy Fuller No. 2 for the Okeh label; performed for decades in a partnership with blind harmonica player Sonny Terry; also appeared in theater, film, and television productions) African American National Biography, accessed January 22, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (McGhee, Brownie; Walter Brown McGhee; blues musician, singer; born 30 November 1915 in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States; recorded first sides for Okeh records partnering harmonica player Jordan Webb on harmonica (1940); ran the House of Blues, a school in Harlem for aspiring blues singers and guitarists (1945); scored a hit with Robbie Doby Boogie (1948); one of few black artists of the pre-civil rights era with both a white and black audience; collaborated with Sonny Terry, appearing in Tennessee Williams's Broadway play Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955-1958); appeared in Langston Hughes's Simply Heavenly, an off-Broadway musical revue (1957); best recordings known as Hometown Blues with Terry, Blues Is Truth with Sugar Blue on harmonica and brother Stick on guitar (1976); died 23 February 1996 in Oakland, California, United States) |
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