Brownie McGhee
USA
Born: 30 November 1915
Died: 16 February 1996
Years Active: 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90
Styles: Acoustic Blues, Country Blues, Folk-Blues, Piedmont Blues, East Coast Blues, Pre-War Country Blues, Urban Blues, Early R&B, R&B/Soul, Blues Revival, Early American Blues
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Brownie McGhee's death in 1996 represents an enormous and irreplaceable loss in the blues field. Although he had been semi-retired and suffering from stomach cancer, the guitarist was still the leading Piedmont-style bluesman on the planet, venerated worldwide for his prolific activities both on his own and with his longtime partner, the blind harpist Sonny Terry. Together, McGhee and Terry worked for decades in an acoustic folk-blues bag, singing ancient ditties like "John Henry" and "Pick a Bale of Cotton" for appreciative audiences worldwide...
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- Sonny Terry (27)
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