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Thread #25124   Message #3591246
Posted By: GUEST,Mike Yates
12-Jan-14 - 05:22 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: Ragged and Dirty (William Brown)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Ragged and Dirty (William Brown)
Listeners should also compare the transcript in the booklet accompanying the Rounder CD "Mississippi - The Blues Lineage (Rounder CD 1852), which gives a few slight differences to "Q"'s transcript given above. The CD also includes William Brown's "Mississippi Blues" and these two recordings are surely two of the greatesty blues tracks ever recorded. But, what happened to William Brown? So far as I know, these were his only solo recordings. According to Alan Lomax, Brown was only 27 years old in 1942. So, again, what happened to him?