Willie Brown (musician)

Willie Brown ( born August 6, 1900 in Clarksdale, Mississippi, † December 30, 1952 in Tunica, Mississippi) was an American blues guitarist and singer.

Brown was born the son of a Sharecroppers and grew up on a plantation near Drew, Mississippi. From the mid- 1920s to about 1930, he was the accompanying guitarist Charley Patton, after which he moved in the same capacity to Son House, with whom he worked during the 1930s and part of the 1940s. In the early 1930s he was a mentor and teacher of Robert Johnson, who later in his song Cross Road Blues mentioned it: You can run, you can run ... tell my friend Willie Brown.

At a recording session with Patton and House for Paramount in 1930 in Grafton, Wisconsin, he took four pieces, of which only the songs M & O Blues and Future Blues are obtained ( Paramount 13099, " Kicking In My Sleep " is not preserved copy known). 1941 Alan Lomax field recordings made ​​with Willie Brown and Son House, including the Brown Solo Make Me a Pallet on the Floor. A short time later he went with House to Rochester, New York, but later returned back to the Mississippi Delta. There, Brown was gradually forgotten, of his last years, very little is known. He died in 1952 and could no longer benefit from the blues revival of the 1960s so.

Despite its major role as a sideman and his extremely narrow resulting work Brown was an important figure of the blues, contributed greatly to shaping together with musicians like Charley Patton and Son House the Delta Blues.

Trivia

In the film, Cross Road Blues - pact with the devil / the Willie Brown is still alive in the 80s. In the story, he sets out with a young Eugene on the search for the lost 30 song by Robert Johnson.

Evidence

• Robert Santelli, The Big Book of Blues: A Biographical Encyclopedia, 1993, ISBN 0140159398

• Blues musicians
• American musician
• Man
• Born 1900
• Died in 1952