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Brown's grave at Shepard Church, Prichard, Mississippi
Background information
Birth name	Willie Lee Brown
Born	or ()August 6, Shelby, Mississippi or, Clarksdale, Mississippi, U.S.
Died	()December 30, (aged 52/53) Tunica, Mississippi, U.S.
Genres
Instruments	Guitar

Willie Lee Brown ( or August 6, – December 30, ) was an American bluesguitar player and vocalist.

He performed and recorded with other blues musicians, including Son House and Charlie Patton, and influenced Robert Johnson and Muddy Waters.

Willie brown blues lyrics ry cooder He made three recordings for the Library of Congress in , accompanied by House. Retrieved ISBN Brown died of heart disease in Tunica, Mississippi , in

Brown is considered one of the pioneering musicians of the Delta blues genre.

Brown worked as a side player, performing mostly with House, Patton, and Johnson. He recorded six sides for Paramount Records in Grafton, Wisconsin in , which were subsequently released on rpm discs. He made three recordings for the Library of Congress in , accompanied by House.

In , Brown briefly joined House in Rochester, New York, but soon returned to Tunica, Mississippi, where he died the same year.

Although normally an accompanist, Brown recorded three highly rated solo performances: "M & O Blues", "Make Me a Pallet on the Floor" and "Future Blues".

Willie brown blues singer There has been speculation and some dispute about whether Brown played backup on "Rowdy Blues", and "Mississippi Bottom Blues", songs credited to Kid Bailey , [11] or recorded it himself using the name of Kid Bailey. Retrieved 4 February Brown's grave at Shepard Church, Prichard, Mississippi. See also [ edit ].

He disappeared from the music scene during the s, together with House, and died before the blues revival of the s.

In Blues & Rhythm May the respected Blues researcher Bob Eagle makes a very strong case for another Willie Brown being the Future Blues artist.

Life and career

He learned to play the guitar as a teenager.

He played with such notables as Charley Patton, Son House and Robert Johnson. He was not a self-promoting frontman, preferring to "second" other musicians. Little is known for certain about the man whom Johnson called "my friend Willie Brown" (in his "Cross Road Blues") and whom Johnson once indicated should be notified in event of his death.

Brown played with Patton on "M & O Blues" and "Future Blues", recorded for Paramount Records in Both songs appear on the album Son House & the Great Delta Blues Singers – (Document Records, ) and are also included in the JSP box set of Patton's recordings.

At least four other songs Brown recorded for Paramount have never been found.

There has been speculation and some dispute about whether Brown played backup on "Rowdy Blues", and "Mississippi Bottom Blues", songs credited to Kid Bailey, or recorded it himself using the name of Kid Bailey.

The musicologist David Evans reconstructed the early biography of a Willie Brown living in Drew, Mississippi, until He was married by , when he was 10 or 11(?), to a proficient guitarist named Josie Mills.

He is recalled as singing and playing guitar with Patton and others in the neighborhood of Drew.

Willie brown blues biography samples Wardlow, Gayle Dean Hidden categories: Webarchive template wayback links Articles with short description Short description is different from Wikidata Articles with hCards All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from July August 6, in Clarksdale, MS, d. He performed occasionally with Charley Patton and continually with Son House until his death.

Informants with conflicting memories led Gayle Dean Wardlow and Steve Calt to conclude that this was a different Willie Brown. Evans rejected this conclusion, believing that the singing and guitar style of the recordings is in the tradition of other performers from Drew, such as Patton, Tommy Johnson, Kid Bailey, Howlin' Wolf and artists not commercially recorded.

Alan Lomax, writing in , suggested that the William Brown he recorded in Arkansas in was the same man as the Paramount artist.

The recording was for a joint project between Fisk University and the Library of Congress documenting the music of Coahoma County, Mississippi, in and Writing over fifty years later, Lomax seemed to have forgotten that he had actually recorded Brown the previous summer with Son House, Fiddlin' Joe Martin and Leroy Williams.

Brown played second guitar on three performances by the group and recorded one solo, "Make Me a Pallet on the Floor".

Willie brown blues crossroads They were released on three rpm shellac discs, of which only one has been found. Discography Brown recorded six sides at a recording session in Grafton, Wisconsin. He learned to play the guitar as a teenager. Brown recorded six sides at a recording session in Grafton, Wisconsin.

Willie Brown also played "Ragged & Dirty". According to Lomax, after Willie played "Ragged & Dirty" for him, Brown quoted, "That's the blues, that's the Delta blues."

The later biography is more clear. Brown lived in Robinsonville, Mississippi from and moved to Lake Cormorant, Mississippi by He performed occasionally with Charley Patton and continually with Son House until his death.

Brown died of heart disease in Tunica, Mississippi, in

Discography

Brown recorded six sides at a recording session in Grafton, Wisconsin.

They were released on three rpm shellac discs, of which only one has been found.

Paramount "Grandma Blues" / "Sorry Blues" (no copy has been found)
Paramount "M & O Blues" / "Future Blues" (only six copies are known)
Paramount "Window Blues" / "Kicking in My Sleep Blues" (no copy has been found)
Library of Congress recording by Lomax: "Make Me a Pallet on the Floor"