The challenge of Willie Brown is that he was the great Delta 'second guitar' player, doing bass runs and fills. His string 'snapping' wouldn't really reappear until the funk bassists of the 1970s. He's the 'second guitarist' on many of Charlie Patton's records and on Son House's from the prewar years. Brown and House worked together for years, nobody recorded them. There are several accounts of their band of the 30s including drums and trumpet. No recordings at all of what would have been among the first 'blues bands'. There is only a taste of the ensemble work Brown made possible on the 1941/42 Son House Library of Congress Recordings (now on Biograph).