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Willie Brown (musician)

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Willie Lee Brown (August 6, 1900 – December 30, 1952) was an American blues guitar player and vocalist. [1]

38 relations: Alan Lomax, Alfred Music, AllMusic, American folk music revival, Blues, Cardiovascular disease, Charley Patton, Clarksdale, Mississippi, Coahoma County, Mississippi, Country blues, Cross Road Blues, Crossroads (1986 film), David Evans (musicologist), Delta blues, Drew, Mississippi, Fiddlin' Joe Martin, Fisk University, Gayle Dean Wardlow, Grafton, Wisconsin, Guitar, Howlin' Wolf, Kid Bailey, Library of Congress, List of Delta blues musicians, Make Me a Pallet on the Floor, Muddy Waters, Paramount Records, PBS, Phonograph record, Prichard, Mississippi, Ragged & Dirty (song), Robert Johnson, Rochester, New York, Singing, Son House, Tommy Johnson (musician), Tunica Resorts, Mississippi, Tunica, Mississippi.

Alan Lomax

Alan Lomax (January 31, 1915 – July 19, 2002) was an American ethnomusicologist, best known for his numerous field recordings of folk music of the 20th century.

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Alfred Music

Alfred Music is a music publishing company.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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American folk music revival

The American folk-music revival began during the 1940s and peaked in popularity in the mid-1960s.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.

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Cardiovascular disease

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a class of diseases that involve the heart or blood vessels.

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Charley Patton

Charley Patton (died April 28, 1934), also known as Charlie Patton, was an American Delta blues musician.

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Clarksdale, Mississippi

Clarksdale is a city in Coahoma County, Mississippi, United States, and seat of the county.

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Coahoma County, Mississippi

Coahoma County is a county located in the U.S. state of Mississippi.

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Country blues

Country blues (also folk blues, rural blues, backwoods blues, or downhome blues) is acoustic, mainly guitar-driven forms of the blues, that mixes blues elements with characteristics of country and folk.

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Cross Road Blues

"Cross Road Blues" (also known as "Crossroads") is a blues song written and recorded by American blues artist Robert Johnson in 1936.

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Crossroads (1986 film)

Crossroads is a 1986 American coming-of-age musical drama film inspired by the legend of blues musician Robert Johnson.

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David Evans (musicologist)

David Evans (born January 22, 1944).

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Delta blues

Delta blues is one of the earliest-known styles of blues music.

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Drew, Mississippi

Drew is a city in Sunflower County, Mississippi.

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Fiddlin' Joe Martin

Fiddlin’ Joe Martin (born 8 January 1900, Edwards, Mississippi; died 2 November 1975, Walls, Mississippi) was an American blues musician who played mandolin on Son House's recording sessions inspired by Alan Lomax in 1941.

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Fisk University

Fisk University is a private historically black university in Nashville, Tennessee.

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Gayle Dean Wardlow

Gayle Dean Wardlow (born August 31, 1940) is an American historian of the blues.

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Grafton, Wisconsin

Grafton is a village in Ozaukee County, Wisconsin, United States.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Howlin' Wolf

Chester Arthur Burnett (June 10, 1910 – January 10, 1976), known as Howlin' Wolf, was a Chicago blues singer, guitarist, and harmonica player, originally from Mississippi.

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Kid Bailey

Kid Bailey was a Mississippi Delta bluesman.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States.

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List of Delta blues musicians

The Delta blues is one of the earliest styles of blues music.

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Make Me a Pallet on the Floor

"Make Me a Pallet on the Floor" (also "Make Me a Pallet on your Floor", "Make Me a Pallet", or "Pallet on the Floor") is a blues/jazz/folk song now considered as a standard.

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Muddy Waters

McKinley Morganfield (April 4, 1913April 30, 1983), known professionally as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician who is often cited as the "father of modern Chicago blues".

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Paramount Records

Paramount Records was an American record label known for its recordings of jazz and blues in the 1920s and early 1930s, including such artists as Ma Rainey and Blind Lemon Jefferson.

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PBS

The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is an American public broadcaster and television program distributor.

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Phonograph record

A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English, or record) is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.

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Prichard, Mississippi

Prichard is an unincorporated community located near Mississippi Highway 3 in Tunica County, Mississippi, United States.

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Ragged & Dirty (song)

"Ragged & Dirty" is an old southern blues song popular in Memphis and other cities of Tennessee and Mississippi.

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Robert Johnson

Robert Leroy Johnson (May 8, 1911August 16, 1938) was an American blues singer-songwriter and musician.

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Rochester, New York

Rochester is a city on the southern shore of Lake Ontario in western New York.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Son House

Eddie James "Son" House, Jr. (March 21, 1902His date of birth is a matter of some debate. House alleged that he was middle-aged during World War I and that he was 79 in 1965, which would make his date of birth around 1886. However, all legal records give his date of birth as March 21, 1902. – October 19, 1988) was an American delta blues singer and guitarist, noted for his highly emotional style of singing and slide guitar playing.

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Tommy Johnson (musician)

Tommy Johnson (January 1896 – November 1, 1956) was an American Delta blues musician who recorded in the late 1920s and was known for his eerie falsetto voice and intricate guitar playing.

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Tunica Resorts, Mississippi

Tunica Resorts,"." U.S. Census Bureau.

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Tunica, Mississippi

Tunica is a town in and the county seat of Tunica County, Mississippi, United States, near the Mississippi River.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie_Brown_(musician)

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