SUNDAY BLUES
So one of the guys over at Voodoo Wagon ( a new fellah I think!? goes by the name of uh, one Mitchell Lopate) done posted some fine, fine blues this morning with the legendary Brownie McGhee. Now it is only relatively recently I discovered that towards the middle of their association they began to disclose they didn't get on at all which shattered this po' white boy's dreams as I loved those guys together . . . . . but I guess I love them apart too! This is a beauty! And sadly the year before he died . . . . he still cooks that Piedmont style mind you. With Sugar Blue on harmonica. Great quality too. Have at it! [well done Mitch!]
There are a few references to Brownie using the Piedmont style guitar playing and for anyone unfamiliar there is a helpful explanation here, simply it is a finger style with its roots in Ragtime with alternating thumb picking on the bass strings and syncopated with the forefinger on the higher strings as mastered by many but notable perhaps to two blind boys, Blind Willie McTell and Blind Blake. Brownie McGhee was a master too and it included my earliest favourite Josh White, Blind Boy Fuller and search out many more if you wish . . . .
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