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
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.
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.
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.