Brownie McGhee
Brownie McGhee
Walter Brown "Brownie" McGhee was an African-American folk music and Piedmont blues singer and guitarist, best known for his collaboration with the harmonica player Sonny Terry...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth30 November 1915
CountryUnited States of America
new-york years ukulele
I got Sonny up to Harlem, and we started street playin' in New York. We did that for three or four years and survived. We brought it back to the streets again.
running song guitar
Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more songs, they'd run out of them.
writing happens
I only write about what I do, what happens to me.
wanted
Anywhere I'm wanted, I'll go. I've got to be wanted, though.
attitude smart boys
The last thing that the blues needs is another smart-ass white boy with an attitude.
dream
Blues is not a dream, blues is truth.
guitar home six street
I started a guitar school. It was called Home of the Blues, on 125th Street in New York. I did that for five, six years and had a lot of students.