Brownie McGhee

Walter McGhee

Born November 30, 1915· Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S.

† Died February 16, 1996

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Emerging from a Tennessee childhood shaped by polio and a makeshift tin-box guitar, he taught himself the instrument while singing with a local gospel quartet and dabbling in banjo, ukulele and piano before surgery finally restored his mobility. After a stint with the Rabbit Foot Minstrels and an apprenticeship under Blind Boy Fuller, he relocated to New York in the early 1940s, where a partnershi…

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources

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