b. Walter Brown McGhee, 30 November 1915, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA, d. 16 February 1996, Oakland, California, USA. McGhee learned guitar from his father, and started a musical career early on, playing in church before he was 10 years old, and on the road with medicine shows, carnivals and minstrel troupes in his early teens. His travels took him into the Carolinas, and his time there proved very influential in moulding his musical style. His younger brother was Granville "Sticks" McGhee, also a singer and blues guitarist. He met Sonny Terry in 1939, and their partnership was to become one of the most enduring in blues. The following year, he made his first records, reminiscent of those of Blind Boy Fuller; indeed some of them bore the credit "Blind Boy Fuller No.2". Also around this time, he settled in New York, where his career took a rather different turn, as he took up with a group of black musicians - including Terry, Lead Belly and Josh White - favoured by the then small white audience for the blues. They also became part of the Folkways Records cognoscenti with Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie. For a number of years, he catered very successfully both for this audience, playing acoustic blues in an older style, and for an entirely separate one.

Listen to Brownie McGhee at Finetune.

• (2007)  Brownie's Blues
• (1996)  Blowin' the Fuses

• Walk On
• Rock Me Momma
• Wailin' & Whoopin'
• Blues for the Lowlands
• Hole In The Wall

• Leadbelly
• Big Bill Broonzy
• Muddy Waters
• John Lee Hooker
• Sonny Boy Williamson
• Reverend Gary Davis
• Robert Johnson
• Howlin' Wolf
• Son House
• Elmore James
• Lightnin' Hopkins
• Mississippi John Hurt
• Lonnie Johnson
• Skip James
• Blind Willie McTell
• Blind Boy Fuller
• Blind Lemon Jefferson
• Memphis Slim
• T-Bone Walker
• Charlie Patton

• elevensies
• Ledbetter
• eddielin11
• seductress
• paulheetebrij
• assebroek