Brownie Mcghee pt 2

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Blues&Folk 1960's

Күн бұрын

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@aethelwulf8753 12 жыл бұрын

Love that Pawn Shop Blues, so many Blind Boy Fuller references in many of the riffs, it was a brilliant performance, we get to see Brownie play the pants off the blues, love ya Brownie, we miss you man, you are irreplaceable.

@stein-fredricsvendsen8530 Жыл бұрын

Blind Boy wrote the Pawnshop Blues. He Called Three Balls

@art4life691 5 жыл бұрын

RESPECT...thank you all original bluesmen/ women...you and your music will live on in my heart..

@paularowe7651 Жыл бұрын

I remember back in the early 1970 s at the Cambridge folk festival I had a backstage permit and was there whilst Sonny and Brownie were performing. I was only around ten feet behind them! Good memories!

@kathrynblackwell3918 2 жыл бұрын

A very fine Gentleman! Extremely talented. Thank you, you made a lonely sad woman have some joy in her heart!

@AnalogOpher 4 жыл бұрын

It's just unreal how we actually had this guy around to record for posterity, when most of the geniuses of his caliber were already long gone.

@antechinus100 3 жыл бұрын

Saw and heard him and Sonny Terry just once. Unforgettable. So glad his art goes on and on here.

@davisworth5114 3 жыл бұрын

Actually, most of the great country bluesmen were alive and playing all over the US and Europe in the 60s and 70s. and many are recorded on this channel.

@idessaoutlaw 2 жыл бұрын

Lightnin Hopkins is another Original Old-time Bluesman. 😎🎸🥃😎👌

@thadbonduris2462 12 жыл бұрын

Thoroughly enjoyed every damn one of these clips---the guy was truly one of the Greats of The Blues!

@michaelb.3978 5 жыл бұрын

My guitar hero since seeing him for the 1st (of many times from Boston to New York to St. Louis!) at Joe's Place, Cambridge, Massachusetts 1973.

@AlexiHolford 4 жыл бұрын

Wow

@Philo68 4 жыл бұрын

I swear on all that is Holy... if I could, I’d have my tailor make this guy the finest suit possible. Just to pay back Brownie for all the joy he’s given me over the last 40 years. I’d love to have met him.

@haroldyeager6124 3 жыл бұрын

Looking at his guitar reminds me when I was 13 years old. I wanted a cheap Japanese electric guitar. My Dad said I got s perfectly good guitar upstairs if you want to learn to play. So I started learning to play on his J-45 Gibson. After a year we went downtown and he bought me for my next birthday a DeArnold pickup to fit in the sound hole. It’s the same pickup that is in in this guitar . This brings back some memories of red burning fingertips. Great memories

@lennyluzitano8920 5 жыл бұрын

BRINGS BACK GREAT MEMORIES 1965 WHEN I WAS PLAYING ACOUSTIC ...THIS STYLE ..SO ENJOYABLE ...THANK YOU

@mikebunyak1910 6 жыл бұрын

Absolutely a masterpiece. Peace. Out.

@robnic52 4 жыл бұрын

Pawn shop blues has really clear footage of his runs and licks but I can't get it to sound clear and strong like that. Barring the A chord at the nut he reaches the stretch up to the high A on the 1st string with first the pinky and then the ring finger. That's a stretch for my pinky finger, no way my ring finger will do that. Brownie has huge hands and more musicality than I'll ever have. Brilliant.

@thejimmymeister 3 жыл бұрын

My left hand stretches about an inch and a half wider from thumb to pinkie than my right hand just from playing. You might be able to do it with some (or a lot) of practice. Don't count yourself out.

@holyspacemonkey 4 жыл бұрын

Brownie McGhee blows me away. Here he was, decades ago, fighting to destigmatize poverty and depression. His song “Born & Living with the Blues” that starts at 9:00 brought me to tears. Those lyrics! “My momma had ‘em; my daddy had ‘em too; I was born with the blues... But I’m not ashamed; Ain’t that news; I’ve been living with the blues...” This whole video is gold. Part 1, too. Thank you for sharing these!

@mns8732 4 жыл бұрын

His I Q must have been off the charts.

@holyspacemonkey 4 жыл бұрын

@@mns8732 He was certainly brilliant!

@davidnyro19 4 жыл бұрын

Wow. His stories. His hard life, the poverty, the shack with the sun and the rain coming in, the hate he got after spending months building his own banjo, and how he had to hew the neck from a piece of wood using broken glass from bottles to do that! Couldn't even afford a knife or any cutting tool. It's almost beyond conceiving that someone couldn't even afford a simple knife to whittle. Wow. The rest of us need to shut our pie holes when we start whining. And look where he got!

@AlexiHolford 4 жыл бұрын

Well said. His life is an incredible testimony to how hard life was for so many. We are so incredibly fortunate in this day and age. For the most part, that is.

@Pabloignacioalvarez 4 жыл бұрын

And he still thank god everyday

@Peters518 11 ай бұрын

Beyond blues and soul!! Fantastic a too small word!!!!! Peet the Swede

@billyjoechambers8494 5 жыл бұрын

That's one well worn fretboard. Must have played that guitar for many years.

@ZeuzBluez 6 ай бұрын

Just a man and his guitar. Pure magic.

@sonivaldocelestinosouza5497 2 жыл бұрын

Uma viagem sonora. Adoro muito o blues.

@राधाकुमार-द4य 5 жыл бұрын

What a voice an gitar playin!

@sheilabarron5532 4 жыл бұрын

Pretty dang good Blues stringing👋👋❤❤✌💙

@SeanEmmettGuitar 8 жыл бұрын

What an honest talented man.

@radiomindchatter7994 Жыл бұрын

He is an inspiration to me..

@HansMaxiBricks 12 жыл бұрын

its all about the right hand man ! I dont get it either...I guess I ll never be able to play this kind of blues....

@lydiaparker1 6 жыл бұрын

Hans Bricks let ur soul belt it out! THAT'S truly what sets the blues apart as the best!

@steinsteel 13 жыл бұрын

There is so much visdom and accept in Brownies Eyes.

@lydiaparker1 6 жыл бұрын

I see it, too; along with a good, sweet, kind soul radiated through his smile on his face. He was so gifted. Learned about him from reading a Van Morrison bio; Both cool fellas!

@epgiovannini2904 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you Folk Seattle!

@davisworth5114 3 жыл бұрын

You are welcome! I drove Brownie to the UW campus where this was recorded.

@gregoryalberts2503 2 жыл бұрын

It's only devils work when you can't play it. Thank you for this.

@lwmson 8 жыл бұрын

What's interestingly unique about Brownie is that he was one of the few Southern guitar bluesman to use standard guitar chords. Note the use of dominate 7th bar chords at 11:00

@jimisrvclapton 8 жыл бұрын

joe jones those really are some brilliant chords progressions.

@lydiaparker1 6 жыл бұрын

jimisrvclapton indeed this fella was brilliantly gifted; the difference comes shining thru his soulful face. Wish I'd been blessed to know him... how wonderful that must've been! Id have been BEG'N to pik 'n belt right alongside this musical genius!

@davisworth5114 3 жыл бұрын

This is Piedmont style blues with a raggy flavor, not Delta or Texas Blues.

@tonyyingling6804 5 жыл бұрын

Go ahead brownie tell us how you really feel

@wolfgangmarkusgstrein8522 5 жыл бұрын

Hallelujah

@johnn4314 6 жыл бұрын

wow what a likable guy

@blueskitchen1965 5 жыл бұрын

堅実。実直。まったく間違いの起こりそうにないあまりにもクレバーなブルース。多分、堅気の仕事でも理想の上司だと思う。

@mrwestern123 Жыл бұрын

Had me ballin....

@PhilUSAFRet 4 жыл бұрын

A beautiful man

@alanwann9318 7 жыл бұрын

Brownies tec? I deduce,major chords E, A B7. Pitched in F.with 6ths,7ths 9ths added to give movement e,gE E6 A A6 B7.inversions inc.The dinna dinna riff is played with a thumb pick for drive.and most often the index pick lead fills etc. His chords change every 2 beats.However he makes the vocal on top seem easy but its hard work combining all this the same time and takes practice.

@thomasmontana9353 7 жыл бұрын

You are damn right. And this voice...btw I got a song in mind almost every bluesman and countryman covered but his version of Make Me Down A Pallet On Your Floor has a sweet guitar lick in it. It's solo job like this one, not with the crazy Sonny Terry :)

@thadbonduris2462 12 жыл бұрын

Thanks Raymondville!