Brownie McGhee

Brownie McGhee

Nacimiento : 1915-11-30, Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S.

Muerte : 1996-02-16

Historia

Walter Brown "Brownie" McGhee was an American folk music and Piedmont blues singer and guitarist, best known for his collaboration with the harmonica player Sonny Terry.

Perfil

Brownie McGhee

Películas

The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1969, Vol. 3
Self (Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee)
Taken from the European tours organised for American blues musicians between 1962 and 1969, this release features performances by several popular blues artists, including: Big Mama Thornton, Roosevelt Sykes, Buddy Guy, Dr. Isaiah Ross, Big Joe Turner, Skip James, Bukka White, Son House, Hound Dog Taylor and Little Walter, Koko Taylor and Little Walter, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee, Helen Humes, Earl Hooker, and Muddy Waters.
Red, White and Blues
Self (archive footage)
Director Mike Figgis (Stormy Monday, Leaving Las Vegas, Time Code) joins musicians such as Van Morrison, Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, and Tom Jones, performing and talking about the music of the early sixties British invasion that reintroduced the blues sound to America.
Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry - Red River Blues
Himself
The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1966, Vol. 2
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
Taken from the European tours organised for American blues musicians between 1962 and 1969, this release features performances by several popular blues artists, including: T-Bone Walker, Lightnin' Hopkins, Victory Spivey, T-Bone Walker ...
The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1966, Vol. 1
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
Taken from the European tours organised for American blues musicians between 1962 and 1969, this release features performances by several popular blues artists, including: T-Bone Walker, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, etc.
Acoustic Routes
Himself
The story of seminal guitarist and singer Bert Jansch, from his early days in Edinburgh, Scotland, to becoming the acoustic guitarist that everyone wanted to be. As a teenager, in the early 1960's Bert sat at the feet of Brownie McGhee at the Howff Folk Club in Edinburgh mesmerised by 'Key to the Highway'. Armed with that raw American Blues influence and a bewildering technique, he fashioned sublime interpretations of traditional and blues music on the acoustic guitar. The result was music that had a profound influence on a generation of musicians including Bob Dylan, Paul Simon and Neil Young, and it still inspires todays' generation of guitarists and singers.
El corazón del ángel
Toots Sweet
A Harry Angel, detective privado en horas bajas de la ciudad de Nueva Orleans, lo contrata en Nueva York un misterioso personaje llamado Louis Cyphre para que encuentre a un hombre desaparecido. Conforme avanza la investigación y conoce a Epiphany Proudfoot, hija de un sacerdote vudú, se suceden extrañas muertes, que parecen estar relacionadas con la magia negra y el vudú, y que implican a Harry de una manera cada vez más personal.
Un loco anda suelto
Blues Singer
Navin Johnson es un chico ingenuo que, al cumplir 18 años, decide recorrer mundo y se instala en Saint Louis. Pero todo el mundo se aprovecha de él, hasta que un invento le hace ganar una fortuna
Festival
Self
Black and white footage of performances, interviews, and conversations at the Newport Folk Festival, from 1963 to 1966. The headliners are Peter, Paul and Mary, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, and Bob Dylan, who's acoustic and electric. Son House and Mike Bloomfield talk about the blues; John Hurt, Howlin' Wolf, and Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee show its range. The Osborne Brothers perform bluegrass. Donovan, Johnny Cash, Judy Collins, Mimi and Dick Farina, and others less well known also perform. Several talk musical philosophy, and there's a running commentary about the nature and appeal of folk music. The crowd looks clean cut.
American Folk-Blues Festival: The Blues and Gospel Train
A 16 minute short comprising 2 acts of a 1964 event where an innovative group of musicians performed on a real railroad track. The audience on one side of the tracks and the musicians on the station side.
To Hear Your Banjo Play
Himself
A short film about Pete Seeger and the birth of banjo music throughout the Southern United States.