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
good musicians pass unheard
There's a lot of good musicians who are unheard of. Get it down before they pass away.
lead records steel truth
I didn't make too many records with Leadbelly. The truth about it, Lead had his 12-string guitar, and I was playin' a steel National.
entitled money
Long made it possible for me to get on records, so what little money he did take from me, if any at all, he was entitled to it. He didn't take something from me.
sonny
From then on in, me and Sonny started makin' records. My first records, Sonny was backin' me up. Sonny wasn't singin' natural at the time; he was singin' falsetto.
everybody fuller met played sonny streets
I met Sonny after (Blind Boy) Fuller died, and me and Sonny played in the streets like everybody else.
behind care sit
I don't sit here and dream because I don't care about the future. I wouldn't take nothin' for my past and I've got enough behind me that I can write forever.
bucks record ten time
Something is better than nothing. Doin' anything for a man, there's investments involved, there's time and production. It's better to give him ten bucks and get a record out than to never record the cat.
sympathy guitar hell
My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else.
I never had the blues; the blues always had me.
appreciate ems path
When somebody blazes a path to a highway that never end, you should appreciate 'em some.
people blues-music folks
Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.
hiking crowds enough
That's what I liked about hitch-hiking. If a crowd wasn't big enough, I kept walkin.'
hiking long people
When I was hitch-hiking, people had to follow me, 'cause I didn't stay long.
guitar steel amplification
I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed.