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Jul 19, 2017 · 1:00. In 1959, folklorists Alan Lomax and Shirley Collins came to a farm near Como, Mississippi. There they would discover a slide guitarist of singular power and uncommon elegance, a 51-year-old...
Profile: American 'hill country blues' singer and guitarist. Born: January 12, 1906 in Rossville, Tennessee, USA. Died: July 3, 1972 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA (Cancer) Also often called "Mississippi Fred McDowell".
May 11, 2009 · Mississippi Fred McDowell - Shake 'Em On Down - YouTube. Scott Grant. 1.44K subscribers. Subscribed. 13K. 1.1M views 14 years ago. McDowell performing the classic north Mississippi hill...
Mississippi Fred McDowell is widely viewed by blues aficionados as the most talented artist of his generation to be “discovered” during the blues revival of the late 1950s and 1960s. Despite his nickname, McDowell was a native of Tennessee, born in Rossville on 12 January 1904. He began playing guitar as a teenager and recalled […]
MISSISSIPPI FRED McDOWELL. Fred McDowell was an enigma. A modest, self-effacing man who didn't even own a guitar until he was 37 years old, and who worked as a farmer until he was over 60, Fred was a prodigious virtuoso of the bottleneck guitar. His command of the expressive 'vocal' quality of his playing, with it's slides and slurs, shows an ...
Mississippi Fred McDowell Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & More | AllMusic. A giant of country blues with powerful bottleneck guitar skills who labored in obscurity until he was discovered in the late '50s. Read Full Biography. STREAM OR BUY: Active. 1920s - 1970s. Born. January 12, 1904 in Rossville, TN. Died. July 3, 1972 in Memphis, TN. Genre.
“Mississippi” Fred McDowell often opened his performances saying that he didn’t play rock and roll music, he only played the natural blues. Many consider him to be the last great Mississippi country bluesman and bottle neck slide guitarist of the 20th century. This “best of” collection draws music …
