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Brownie McGhee - Brownie´s Blues (1962)

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Brownie McGhee's death in 1996 was an enormous 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, 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. But McGhee was capable of a great deal more. Throughout the immediate postwar era, he cut electric blues and R&B on the New York scene, even enjoying a huge R&B hit in 1948 with "My Fault" for Savoy (Hal "Cornbread" Singer handled tenor sax duties on the 78).                

"Brownie's Blues" was originally released by Bluesville Records in 1962. Supported by his longtime accompanist Sonny Terry, as well as second guitarist Benny Foster, Brownie turns in a nicely understated record that's distinguished by surprisingly harmonically complex and jazzy guitar work. Among the highlights are versions of "Killin' Floor," "Trouble in Mind" and "Every Day I Have the Blues," as well as the boogieing "Jump, Little Children" and "I Don't Know the Reason."     

Tracklist:

A1 Jump, Little Children

A2 Lonesome Day

A3 One Thing For Sure

A4 The Killin' Floor

A5 Little Black Engine

B1 I Don't Know The Reason

B2 Trouble In Mind 

B3 Everyday I Have The Blues

B4 Door To Success

Well what do you know no sooner had  I decided to give up trying with Zero G Sounds as they seemed to have exclusively switched to the dread Kraken files (no longer available to this of us in the UK! it seems) and then go and post a couple through ImageNetz that works a treat still

I ws hugely upset to learn Brownie and Sonny did not get on and spent much of their career together not speaking and bad mouthing the other behind backs and so on but Brownie on his own deserves his won place in the history of Piedmont style blues! Sonny too for his services to harmonica blues playing in his peerless style but to find out they ended up hating each other is tough to take on board! Here they both figure on a ’solo’ (sic’ album!! Go figure!