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Interview with Brownie McGhee [Tape #003]
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Title
Interview with Brownie McGhee [Tape #003]
Collection Guide (External)
Created Date
January 1st, 1992
Description
Side A description: Sister working for family [00:00]
Sister moves to live with mother in New York [00:33]
Brownie’s alley [01:08]
Graduation from high school [01:32]
Participation in church activities, religious schooling [02:27]
Leaves the Baptist church [06:50]
Fulbright program and polio surgery [07:48]
Brownie and brother move in with aunt in 1929 [09:36]
Mother’s death [10:41]
Living with aunt [11:22]
Aunt and uncle farming and sharecropping [12:40]
Timber harvesting, shingle making, learning to hunt and fish [13:43]
Disability and walking with a crutch [17:13]
Aunt teaches him to cook, iron, and sew [18:45]
Attending school in Vonore, Tennessee [20:40]
Sings graduation song, “I promise you” [23:40]
Built smokehouse, water from the Henley family [24:42]
Henley and McGhee families [27:04]
killing and butchering pigs [28:15]
Salt curing meats underneath house [31:30] Side B description: Canning and storing food, trading tobacco [00:00]
Tobacco and cotton farming [01:25]
Return to Kingsport, Tennessee [05:20]
Polio and insecurity fueled his hatred of women [05:40]
Girls coming to his house as a teenager [07:55]
Aunt encourages him to visit man with no legs [09:03]
Other people in town with polio [14:28]
His desire to learn to become a carpenter or lawyer [15:18]
Reading books [16:20]
No first girlfriend [17:24]
Aunt’s belief that all stringed instruments were the devil’s music [18:09]
Uncle John helped him to build a banjo [18:29]
Aunt hides his banjo in attic [20:30]
Starts to play guitar [21:19]
First guitar and first recording [24:21]
Father’s musical style and traveling [25:45]
Sister moves to live with mother in New York [00:33]
Brownie’s alley [01:08]
Graduation from high school [01:32]
Participation in church activities, religious schooling [02:27]
Leaves the Baptist church [06:50]
Fulbright program and polio surgery [07:48]
Brownie and brother move in with aunt in 1929 [09:36]
Mother’s death [10:41]
Living with aunt [11:22]
Aunt and uncle farming and sharecropping [12:40]
Timber harvesting, shingle making, learning to hunt and fish [13:43]
Disability and walking with a crutch [17:13]
Aunt teaches him to cook, iron, and sew [18:45]
Attending school in Vonore, Tennessee [20:40]
Sings graduation song, “I promise you” [23:40]
Built smokehouse, water from the Henley family [24:42]
Henley and McGhee families [27:04]
killing and butchering pigs [28:15]
Salt curing meats underneath house [31:30] Side B description: Canning and storing food, trading tobacco [00:00]
Tobacco and cotton farming [01:25]
Return to Kingsport, Tennessee [05:20]
Polio and insecurity fueled his hatred of women [05:40]
Girls coming to his house as a teenager [07:55]
Aunt encourages him to visit man with no legs [09:03]
Other people in town with polio [14:28]
His desire to learn to become a carpenter or lawyer [15:18]
Reading books [16:20]
No first girlfriend [17:24]
Aunt’s belief that all stringed instruments were the devil’s music [18:09]
Uncle John helped him to build a banjo [18:29]
Aunt hides his banjo in attic [20:30]
Starts to play guitar [21:19]
First guitar and first recording [24:21]
Father’s musical style and traveling [25:45]
Creators and Contributors
Genre
Media Type
Format
Audio cassette
Extent
1
Tape
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Country of Creation
United States
Contributing Organization
Contributing Organization Contact Information
Email: aamlo@oaklandlibrary.org
Phone: (510) 637-0198
Phone: (510) 637-0198
Organization Websites
Link to Internet Archive
Duration
01:04:28