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Interview with Brownie McGhee [Tape #001]

African American Museum and Library at Oakland
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Title

Interview with Brownie McGhee [Tape #001]

Finding Aid Title

Brownie McGhee Papers

Date Created

1990-01-01

Description

Side A description: Silence [00:00]; Les Paul and Mary Ford [00:07]; First time in Chicago [02:36]; Father as a songwriter and musician [03:00]; Father leaves for work [04:02]; Brownie goes to Kingsport, Tennessee and begins selling liquor [05:20]; Recuperation after polio operation [05:50]; Father shoots wife [06:01]; Father released from prison and return home [07:50]; Learns to play father's guitar in hospital [08:20]; Aunt prohibition against stringed instruments, believes they are the "devil's music" [09:10]; Secretly making his own banjo [10:05] Side B description: Silence [00:00]; Love of music from mother [00:29]; Dealing with handicap as a child [01:07]; Learning hobbies from mother [01:40]; Learning to play guitar, 1936 [02:23]; Father fighting with women [02:58]; Return to Kingsport, Tennessee [03:34]; Mother's affair [04:25]; Mother beats father with brick [04:55]; Father's life [06:00]; Discharge from hospital, meeting his father's girlfriend Mattie [07:15]; Hustling and playing music, 1938 [09:44]; Breakup with Mattie [10:42]; Playing music and selling liquor [13:00]

Creator

McGhee, Brownie

Interviewer

Wright, Leslie Ann

Interviewee

McGhee, Brownie

Genre

Oral histories

Media Type

Sound

Format

Audio cassette

Number of Parts

1 Tape of 1

Copyright Statement

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Country of Creation

US

Source Institution

African American Museum and Library at Oakland

Source Institution Contact Information

African American Museum and Library at Oakland, 659 14th Street, Oakland, CA, 94612, US, Telephone: (510) 637-0198, email: aamlo@oaklandlibrary.org, http://www.oaklandlibrary.org/locations/african-american-museum-library-...

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