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Interview with Brownie McGhee [Tape #019 & 021]
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Title
Interview with Brownie McGhee [Tape #019 & 021]
Collection Guide (External)
Created Date
September 11th, 1994
Description
TAPE 1: Side A description: Silence [00:00]
The Gateway Singers, father's advice on segregation [00:08]
Playing with white musicians in the South in the 1930s [01:25]
Brownie's Alley [03:27]
WNYC radio show [05:39]
Lead Belly, Josh White [08:07]
Alan Lomax, music brings people together [11:42]
His father, childhood, corporal punishment and obedience of children [13:52]
Father's aphorisms, "you don't know big wood from brush" [18:26]
Left home in 8th grade, The Depression, finishing high school [20:26]
Sisters [22:54]
No depression in rural Tennessee, food and canning at home [25:18]
Depression hits in 1934, high school graduation class [27:30]
Cleaning and laundry [30:30]
Father's iterant work and effect on the family's housing [33:48]
His father never wanted to work on August 8th [36:45]
Father's pay "$1300 in the bank" [38:25]
His mother babied him because of his polio [40:37]
Polio, John Hopkins Hospital surgery, playing sports, girls [42:15] Side B description: Silence [00:00]
Discussing photographs, concert tour [00:22]
Girlfriend's heart attack, tour of Australia and New Zealand [05:02]
Discussing photographs [09:18]
Blind Boy Fuller [12:30]
Discussing photographs [14:50]
Selling voodoo charms on street [16:55]
Working with medicine shows and con artist in West Virginia [17:36]
Traveling from town to town on bus [24:20]
Medicine shows [27:03]
Scotch and milk [31:30]
Blues is truth [35:58]
New York City as a con world, press coverage [39:00]
Sonny Terry's sickness, music touring business [40:10]
Performing for royal family in Nepal [47:15] TAPE 2: Side A description: Silence [00:00]
Partnership with Sonny Terry [01:20]
Woody Guthrie dinner incident in Baltimore, Maryland [02:52]
Sonny gets into fight with man who pushed Brownie [09:47]
Sonny cast in Finian's Rainbow [11:40]
Jane Dudley's "Harmonica breakdown" [14:45]
Sonny's singing style, J.B. Long [16:36]
Alberta Hunter, Bessie Smith [17:20]
B.B. King, problems keeping time [20:27]
Phineas Newborn Jr. [25:25]
Montreux Jazz Festival, refusal to let Styve Homnick take stage between he's white [29:05]
Quit traveling, fear of leaving house [33:17]
Brownie takes phone call [39:36]
Jimmy Rogers, Lonnie Johnson, Riverboat in Toronto, Canada [43:45]
The Gateway Singers, father's advice on segregation [00:08]
Playing with white musicians in the South in the 1930s [01:25]
Brownie's Alley [03:27]
WNYC radio show [05:39]
Lead Belly, Josh White [08:07]
Alan Lomax, music brings people together [11:42]
His father, childhood, corporal punishment and obedience of children [13:52]
Father's aphorisms, "you don't know big wood from brush" [18:26]
Left home in 8th grade, The Depression, finishing high school [20:26]
Sisters [22:54]
No depression in rural Tennessee, food and canning at home [25:18]
Depression hits in 1934, high school graduation class [27:30]
Cleaning and laundry [30:30]
Father's iterant work and effect on the family's housing [33:48]
His father never wanted to work on August 8th [36:45]
Father's pay "$1300 in the bank" [38:25]
His mother babied him because of his polio [40:37]
Polio, John Hopkins Hospital surgery, playing sports, girls [42:15] Side B description: Silence [00:00]
Discussing photographs, concert tour [00:22]
Girlfriend's heart attack, tour of Australia and New Zealand [05:02]
Discussing photographs [09:18]
Blind Boy Fuller [12:30]
Discussing photographs [14:50]
Selling voodoo charms on street [16:55]
Working with medicine shows and con artist in West Virginia [17:36]
Traveling from town to town on bus [24:20]
Medicine shows [27:03]
Scotch and milk [31:30]
Blues is truth [35:58]
New York City as a con world, press coverage [39:00]
Sonny Terry's sickness, music touring business [40:10]
Performing for royal family in Nepal [47:15] TAPE 2: Side A description: Silence [00:00]
Partnership with Sonny Terry [01:20]
Woody Guthrie dinner incident in Baltimore, Maryland [02:52]
Sonny gets into fight with man who pushed Brownie [09:47]
Sonny cast in Finian's Rainbow [11:40]
Jane Dudley's "Harmonica breakdown" [14:45]
Sonny's singing style, J.B. Long [16:36]
Alberta Hunter, Bessie Smith [17:20]
B.B. King, problems keeping time [20:27]
Phineas Newborn Jr. [25:25]
Montreux Jazz Festival, refusal to let Styve Homnick take stage between he's white [29:05]
Quit traveling, fear of leaving house [33:17]
Brownie takes phone call [39:36]
Jimmy Rogers, Lonnie Johnson, Riverboat in Toronto, Canada [43:45]
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Audio cassette
Extent
2
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United States
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Email: aamlo@oaklandlibrary.org
Phone: (510) 637-0198
Phone: (510) 637-0198
Organization Websites
Link to Internet Archive
Duration
03:09:00