Brownie Mcghee pt 1

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  • @paulkersey1007
    @paulkersey1007 5 років тому +103

    Whoever filmed these series of video in that time, got one thing absolutely on point: THEY FILMED THE MUSICIANS CORRECT HAND TO SHOW HOW THEY PLAYED SO NEXT GENERATIONS CAN LEARN FROM THESE VIDEOS.
    Whoever the camera guy was: THANK YOU! I TOAST YOU WITH WHISKEY!

    • @citypulse922
      @citypulse922 2 роки тому

      Your talking rubbish, they just did it simple stuff it is what he says that counts. And guess what Videos ( in that time ) didn't exist back then. Man some folk are dullards

    • @cedomirdelic2756
      @cedomirdelic2756 Рік тому

      Qq

    • @paulkersey1007
      @paulkersey1007 Рік тому

      @@citypulse922 You talking to be or Larry?

    • @BicycleJoeTomasello
      @BicycleJoeTomasello Рік тому +5

      @@citypulse922 You aren't very nice, man some people kids.

    • @PutItAway101
      @PutItAway101 Рік тому

      @@citypulse922 What are you babbling about, idiot? Of course there was video in the 1960s.

  • @4horizonseyegalloway69
    @4horizonseyegalloway69 4 роки тому +52

    How could you not like Brownie. So original, so genuine. That is America by god.

  • @mrnobody8641
    @mrnobody8641 2 місяці тому +1

    Sooo freaking underrated and so unrecognized by too many. Absolute legend

  • @mark-mckelvie
    @mark-mckelvie 3 роки тому +19

    Now that is a cameraman! Must have been a guitar player!

  • @stephenholmes8958
    @stephenholmes8958 3 роки тому +22

    Blues skills are off the scale, love it. What a guy. Classic

  • @kipponi
    @kipponi 6 років тому +31

    The fretboard is scalloped first four frets so much playing. Great effortless playing and singing. It is like breathing his music.

    • @kayeaston9646
      @kayeaston9646 Рік тому

      I saw Sonny Terry and Brownie Maghee in 1978 or 1979 in Austin Texas.
      Alot different than the ol' time Rock-Roll.
      I enjoyed the change🎉

  • @ikemancil3850
    @ikemancil3850 Рік тому +6

    Sonny and Brownie were my favorite blues influence. As a young highschool student I fell in love with the blues. Over time I amassed an extensive collection of blues of all manner and like. But someone decided that they needed that more than I did. I still to this day have not been able to replace some of those albums. Could have wrote a song about that. But it would have been to painful. Long live the blues.

  • @Philo68
    @Philo68 4 роки тому +10

    A hard, hard day at work in the heat, a cool shower, some food and then...
    A large cool Whiskey and soda and a listen to this guy play his blues. Fantastic stuff - thanks so much for sharing. Cheers!

  • @thomaskline
    @thomaskline 6 місяців тому +1

    Brownie was smooth! He is one of my favorite guitar players! Notice how relaxed he is!

  • @radiomindchatter7994
    @radiomindchatter7994 Рік тому +4

    Such a nice man! Well spoken and talented.

  • @williampagdon4822
    @williampagdon4822 Рік тому +3

    I have been a huge Brownie McGhee (and Sonny Terry) Fan since I first heard him back around 1973. Just pouring emotion out with Beautiful Playing and Singing. I listen to him often and am filled with sadness and joy every time. He is a Treasure.

  • @kurtfoster3640
    @kurtfoster3640 6 років тому +36

    I had the pleasure of recording Brownie's final record accompanied by The Elmer Lee Thomas Blues Revue that was finally released on Demon Records just before he passed. He was gentleman of the first degree and a great performer right up to the end. I know there's some footage somewhere that was produced by Leslie Ann Knight for a documentary that never came to be. Too bad.

    • @tdb517
      @tdb517 3 роки тому +1

      Do you remember what microphones you used for his guitar?

    • @mikeschneider1624
      @mikeschneider1624 3 роки тому +1

      what was the date of the recording in this youtube?

  • @ashokmalkani1553
    @ashokmalkani1553 2 роки тому +1

    Watching Brownie play the guitar, all I can say is " O Play that thang ".

  • @jimchumley2982
    @jimchumley2982 2 роки тому +2

    The best! Him & Sonny Terry are great.

  • @matiukaka112
    @matiukaka112 Рік тому +3

    Old school og styles blues smooth real.

  • @woodrat223
    @woodrat223 9 років тому +13

    Last saw Brownie at an anti-war rally in Vancouver, BC, 1969. Met Sonny and Brownie in dressing room of Second Fret, Philadlephia, 1962. Very friendly, helpful, funny, kind and sharing man.

  • @goodun6081
    @goodun6081 5 років тому +7

    I saw Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee play live in a park for free, I think it was about 1980. If I remember correctly they had Taj Mahal and Elizabeth Cotten on the same stage that particular night. It was a wonderful show. Man, those were the days!

  • @DanFrechette
    @DanFrechette Рік тому +3

    He was a beautiful spirit and God bless him

  • @Wildmanfan
    @Wildmanfan 9 років тому +10

    Brownie McGhee is my idol. Between him, Sonny Terry, Lightnin' Hopkins, Mance Lipscomb, and Howlin' Wolf, they are amongst my absolute favorites. They don't make men like Brownie anymore. He was truly a legend of the Blues for all times. I wish I could only play a fraction of as good as him.

    • @carlosescalante1080
      @carlosescalante1080 4 роки тому

      Bill Overbeck skills and the conditions these men endured ...

  • @daverenick5830
    @daverenick5830 Рік тому +2

    The older I get the more I appreciate how excellent and straightforward his play is. I agree with the comment below that it's great when artists are filmed so you can watch what they are doing to learn from. I first discovered him, not with Sonny Terry, but from the great song he did in the movie Angel Heart in a band with that great harp player who's name I forget, something blue I think.....

  • @edwardfrankdelamere4940
    @edwardfrankdelamere4940 Рік тому +2

    I love the blues it's been years and love it

  • @lwmson
    @lwmson 8 років тому +8

    I never heard of this guy before and I just stumbled on him here via YT while I was looking for some Lightin' Hopkins videos. Well, I thought Lightin' was a tight bluesman but this guy is awesome!

  • @Stern-warning
    @Stern-warning Рік тому +2

    That is truly the most impressive road worn fretboard I have ever seen.

  • @raphaelrousso7124
    @raphaelrousso7124 4 роки тому +3

    Brownie 's got that smooth swing , to me is so expressive and unbeatable . I'm glad i can see and listen to this . A BIG THANK YOU !

  • @spacebrain1991
    @spacebrain1991 9 років тому +42

    Man his fingers just dance up and down those frets.. So good!

  • @randycuffaro2848
    @randycuffaro2848 9 років тому +34

    Met Brownie MANY times. Got to know him a little. I would visit him at concert venues....hang in the dressing room. To this day one of my most prized possessions is the photo with me and Brownie....I miss the man....a very nice man.

    • @Wildmanfan
      @Wildmanfan 9 років тому +3

      randy cuffaro You, my friend, are one lucky man. Brownie was my idol in so many ways. I'm only 38 and honestly, his music has affected me in more ways than one. Cherish that moment. How was Brownie as a person?

    • @girboz
      @girboz 5 років тому

      @Hammerin' Hank his smug face kindness is just a act for the white folks. He was a man like any man. drinks shags and talks shit.

    • @jimmy5391
      @jimmy5391 4 роки тому +1

      @@girboz how do you reckon that?

    • @girboz
      @girboz 4 роки тому

      @Jimmy Biggums
      Im a man

    • @jimmy5391
      @jimmy5391 4 роки тому +3

      @@girboz That's your reason? you're a man? Did you know brownie? or are you judging the man because of his skin color. That would just not be right my brother.

  • @bellavoice
    @bellavoice 8 років тому +9

    I heard, saw and met Sony and Browny when they played a concert in Sydney Town Hall, in Sydney Australia. incredible sound. I remember hanging out after the show and enjoyed the impromptu jam with some other musos. Respect fine sirs.

    • @antechinus100
      @antechinus100 8 років тому +2

      You sure it was the Town Hall? Saw and heard them at the Capitol. The place had probably the best acoustics of any theatre in Sydney. Also heard Herbie Mann there before it was refurbished. Sonny and Terry were rebooked again years later but Sonny went to play his harp at the other place. Brownie followed him soon after. They live on right here, thanks to FolkSeattle and others. Thank you.

    • @bellavoice
      @bellavoice 8 років тому +2

      Your right. it was the Capitol 😊

  • @paulkersey1007
    @paulkersey1007 11 років тому +3

    I heard that Brownie was a very nice man from some people I met who had played music with him. How I would give literally anything to have met him. He is one of my Blues heroes. Brownie said he wanted to be like his dad, well, I want to be like Brownie musically in so many ways.

  • @snerper
    @snerper 10 років тому +5

    God broke the mould after he made Brownie, a definite, one off, character, I wish that I'd met him somewhere along the way, what fantastic stories he would have had to tell!

  • @marciaewell2661
    @marciaewell2661 5 років тому +3

    I sure found the right You Tube channel tonight, FolkSeattle rocks it! Finally a cameraman who can video artists so you can see the action going on at the fretboard. It is worth the wait to get to hear and see the last lead he plays. His fretboard is full of finger "potholes" from all the excessive mileage, makes Willie's guitar seem pretty pristine.

  • @lydiaparker1
    @lydiaparker1 6 років тому +2

    I also have much respect for how he spoke so proper, and I adore his voice n pik'n! A real man's voice, yet w gentle notes in it... and like I said b4, his smile and kind soul coming through on his face. Bet this was a wonderful person.

  • @idessaoutlaw
    @idessaoutlaw 2 роки тому +2

    Check out the wear on that freeboard. Brownie was the real deal Bluesman.😎🎸 🥃😎👌

  • @FuzzyDancingBear
    @FuzzyDancingBear 3 роки тому +4

    Such a warm smile

  • @4runner39
    @4runner39 5 років тому +2

    What a great soulful player / singer - how on earth could anybody dis like this?

  • @garrettjohnson97
    @garrettjohnson97 4 роки тому +3

    He’s jsut so smooth!! Damn good guitarist

  • @textucker1158
    @textucker1158 6 років тому +3

    I saw brownie and sonny in Liverpool about 1960.they were touring with the Chris barber jazz band.

  • @lydiaparker1
    @lydiaparker1 6 років тому +10

    What a kind, sweet soul radiated through his smile. Im so glad that these videos have been posted so we can witness this strength in a time where he was most likely underated. I love the bluesy style. He was rockn b4 rockn rocked!

  • @NUJAKKCITIE
    @NUJAKKCITIE 10 років тому +5

    woo, this it! great voice, great touch!! I love it!!!

  • @swansonjazzmusic5227
    @swansonjazzmusic5227 4 роки тому +2

    Great footage and sound of one of the all time great bluesmen

  • @ThomasGuiducci
    @ThomasGuiducci 12 років тому +9

    Better than any guitar lesson!

  • @mrjimmienoone2130
    @mrjimmienoone2130 10 років тому +2

    I love that light and easy touch.

  • @MrJazzedBlues
    @MrJazzedBlues 12 років тому +3

    You must be a lucky man. This is so f..n good. This is the blues I wanna play but ain't able to play . But I will , I sure will, I never heard of Brownie MchGee until now (that is UTube of course). Thanks a lot for letting me now.

  • @roberthancock2563
    @roberthancock2563 6 років тому

    Man,these cats were incredible!! Could watch for hours!!

  • @samuelsholder2789
    @samuelsholder2789 4 роки тому

    really soul but soulful way of playing!

  • @sw789
    @sw789 4 роки тому +4

    Absolute Legend

  • @ste.6026
    @ste.6026 Рік тому +2

    Wow... love it... Thanks

  • @kerryewen3624
    @kerryewen3624 4 роки тому

    Look at the worn frets , washboard! Always great to listen to.

  • @ArcticMonkeification
    @ArcticMonkeification 3 роки тому

    The 'Bob Ross' of the Blues

  • @SuperOlds88
    @SuperOlds88 13 років тому +7

    The best thing I have seen on UA-cam.

    • @marcus_starr
      @marcus_starr 3 роки тому

      Just watched one of your vids and this popped up next. 😎

  • @BicycleJoeTomasello
    @BicycleJoeTomasello Рік тому

    On the one hand, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee had a 35-year long musical partnership that redefined folk music and introduced Piedmont blues music to audiences from 1938 to the late 1970s.
    On the other hand, both Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee did not depend on each other for motivation and inspiration or for money and fame.
    For their adult lives, Brownie resided in Oakland CA, while Sonny lived in New York NY. Not only did the duo refuse to speak to each other at all off-stage, they also refused to travel together - even making sure they took separate airplanes.
    The actual basis of the quarrel between Sonny and Brownie is unknown, but it was most likely caused by - and sustained by - the differences in their temperaments. Sonny was a country boy, whose father was a farmer and who seemed happiest with his vocal whoops and hollers. Brownie was a city smoothie, who was more comfortable with the urban street and arts life.
    At the end, Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee would still be billed together to the ticket-buying audience. But Sonny would play harmonica with another guitarist, and then Brownie would take the stage for a solo set. Their final joint appearance was in the 1979 Steve Martin comedy film, “The Jerk.” Years after no longer appearing together, they each died: Sonny in March 1986 and Brownie in February 1996.

  • @moneykings4832
    @moneykings4832 7 років тому +1

    it just looks so effortless

  • @markdrouin8094
    @markdrouin8094 5 років тому +2

    A master at work

  • @muhammadfaisalfadli437
    @muhammadfaisalfadli437 3 роки тому +1

    such a beautiful vibes

  • @oliverk191
    @oliverk191 2 роки тому

    There's a tendency for modern players to overthink and overcomplicate, this is brilliantly simple

  • @josephgrady2129
    @josephgrady2129 5 років тому +1

    This is the best video on UA-cam!

  • @jeffreymccomas3281
    @jeffreymccomas3281 Рік тому

    There's a documentary somewhere that shows Sonny and Brownie the narrator says that the guy playing guitar is Big Bill Broonzy but I busted it wide open because it's clearly Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry way back when they started in the 30s Brownies kindness shows through in his smile even in that old black and white documentary

  • @bobsyeruncle4841
    @bobsyeruncle4841 6 років тому +3

    he dug holes in the first three frets of that guitar now THAT is a lot of playing the man is SMOKIN

    • @bgilley8199
      @bgilley8199 5 років тому

      There's some serious divots all over the first 5 frets. Do you know if he's playing a Martin here?

  • @LexJones207
    @LexJones207 4 роки тому

    This is a great video. You can tell the camera operator was a guitar player.

  • @jeromyxavierwenzelwashingt4625

    is there a background guitar or just him?

  • @mohamedtlass3842
    @mohamedtlass3842 3 роки тому +1

    Anyone noticed that he had the same pickup in his guitar as lightnin Hopkins who also seemed to have been recorded by the same ones who recorded this and around the same time?

    • @davisworth5114
      @davisworth5114 2 роки тому +2

      This is from the video archives of the Seattle Folklore Society. I was a concert promoter for this group and was blessed to meet Brownie and Sonny and many more great bluesmen. Glad so many enjoy this, I drove them to the studio on the UofW campus to record this in approx. 1971.

  • @964746568
    @964746568 10 років тому +1

    wonderfull videos!!! thanks alot, folkseattle.

  • @ThatJonFrank
    @ThatJonFrank 10 років тому

    Me and Jimmy Reed R going down to see if Brownie's dog wants to go for a walk...Seeya!

  • @medoelwerfally
    @medoelwerfally 4 роки тому +1

    Thanks 🙏🏼 for sharing,

  • @OO-qr1ks
    @OO-qr1ks Рік тому +1

    Hell yeah brother

  • @s1d.b1t
    @s1d.b1t 7 років тому +2

    omg this is gold

  • @001mcampbell
    @001mcampbell 8 років тому +3

    Love the blues

  • @mlwsf
    @mlwsf 5 років тому +2

    Just look at the divits in his feet board in his favored positions

  • @MATT63793
    @MATT63793 5 років тому +3

    Its a Martin d 18 ?

  • @Bluefinger
    @Bluefinger 13 років тому +1

    What a great guitar picker ...

  • @andovideo
    @andovideo 6 років тому

    love this guy

  • @bjorngardner
    @bjorngardner 10 років тому

    Fantastic channel. Great work. Thank you /Swedish musician.

  • @kokadkokis
    @kokadkokis 4 роки тому

    Nice performance, I'll look up sonny as well

  • @johnh5463
    @johnh5463 Місяць тому

    Just wow!!!

  • @WICHITAPHALZ
    @WICHITAPHALZ 12 років тому

    Just watched the movie "Leadbelly - 1976" on youtube these guy did the music for the sound track, it is amazing.

    • @alonzogarbanzo
      @alonzogarbanzo Рік тому

      I love Brownie and wish I had such skills. But as for Parks' movie, I found it absurd that there was no real Lead Belly-style playing in it. Lead Belly played often with Sonny, not so much with Brownie. In any case, Brownie's style is nothing at all like Huddie's. If Parks had hired Mike Russo to provide the audio there might have been more authentic-sounding Lead Belly onscreen. Russo had LB's style beautifully mastered.

  • @floobuscanoobus
    @floobuscanoobus Рік тому +1

    God bless you

  • @stevewilliamson9995
    @stevewilliamson9995 6 років тому +8

    Well used fretboard at 4:00.

  • @blueskitchen1965
    @blueskitchen1965 5 років тому +1

    このギター頭良いな。

  • @samuelsholder2789
    @samuelsholder2789 4 роки тому +1

    rip brownie

  • @Levabiker
    @Levabiker 3 роки тому

    McGhee ♥️ 👍👍👍👍👍

  • @Errrokay
    @Errrokay 4 роки тому +2

    Is he pressing the A and D strings at the 2nd fret with one finger to chord the E as he alternately lifts on and off G string first fret?

  • @levis6945
    @levis6945 2 роки тому

    Heard about him from an episode of matlock

  • @freddyloper7839
    @freddyloper7839 6 років тому

    Amazing!!!

  • @pianoboogie51
    @pianoboogie51 2 роки тому

    2:45 is great

  • @marcus_starr
    @marcus_starr 3 роки тому

    Yup 😎

  • @silver-hammer
    @silver-hammer 9 місяців тому +1

    Not as easy as it looks !

  • @paulrawiriakawaitohi5162
    @paulrawiriakawaitohi5162 7 років тому

    I Subscribed

  • @mariocastillo7997
    @mariocastillo7997 2 роки тому

    Oh man yeah

  • @90harmo
    @90harmo 13 років тому

    Belle image merci

  • @goodun6081
    @goodun6081 5 років тому

    What kind of idiot (eleven of them) would downvote this? Nice that the camera work follows his left hand so much, although I'd like to see some right hand video as well.

  • @samuelsholder2789
    @samuelsholder2789 4 роки тому

    crazy ;efet hamd

  • @davidglow3
    @davidglow3 5 років тому +1

    Moving to Kansas city would be a big mistakes. Very boring place

    • @goodun6081
      @goodun6081 5 років тому +3

      No more "they got some crazy little women there and I'm gonna get me some"?
      "Kansas City horns are blowin', you won't believe what the farms are growin'/ you got to come on man and get a piece of Mr. Parker's Band ...." Steely Dan

    • @davisworth5114
      @davisworth5114 2 роки тому

      who put a nickel in you?

    • @davidglow3
      @davidglow3 2 роки тому

      @@davisworth5114 There was a superb band from Kansas city circa 1923/9...Bennie Motens and a great song from 1927..Kansas city kitty.

  • @zadspecial
    @zadspecial 3 роки тому

    1:17 starts

  • @IberianInteractive
    @IberianInteractive 5 років тому

    did he say he "preserved his dog on the wall" What the fuck?

    • @billyjoechambers8494
      @billyjoechambers8494 5 років тому

      Dat boi Kwesar I think he found a cardboard picture of a dog and stuck on his wall

    • @charlesberger6618
      @charlesberger6618 3 роки тому +3

      "I remember one day in my hunt for money I found an old Victor dog." He's referring to a photo of the RCA Victor logo/mascot (maybe on an old LP record jacket?) 😎

  • @danmurphy4724
    @danmurphy4724 5 років тому +1

    Not the player .. Listen to the FUCKING guitar!

  • @charlespeterson3798
    @charlespeterson3798 6 років тому

    What dude is that, calls himself bejesu or some silly ass name, married Armenian sand foot woman? Have him watch this.