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Thread #42472 Message #617397
Posted By: Bobert
27-Dec-01 - 10:06 PM
Thread Name: I can't find recordings of Willie Brown
Subject: RE: I can't find recordings of Willie Brown
Just a follow up, Rolfy. In 1948 Willie Brown died and when he did, the great Son House just put his guitar in the closet, said "screw it" and went to work as a porter on the New York Central Railroad and would have worked his life out there had it not been for some white kids who found him and coaxed him back into playin'. Now if that doesn't tell the tale of the power that Willie Brown had on his fellow Delta bluesmen, then nothing can..."you can run, you can run... tell my friend Willie Brown, yeah you can run, you can run, tell my friend Willie Brown... Got them crossroads blues this mornin', Lord, I'm sinkin' down..."