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Fred McDowell (January 12, 1904 – July 3, 1972), [1] known by his stage name Mississippi Fred McDowell, was an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. Career. McDowell was born in Rossville, Tennessee. [2] . His parents were farmers, who both died while Fred was in his youth.
McDowell, a seminal figure in Mississippi hill country blues, was one of the most vibrant performers of the 1960s blues revival. McDowell was a sharecropper and local entertainer in 1959 when he made his first recordings at his home on a farm near Como, Mississippi, for folklorist Alan Lomax.
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 […]
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. Blues. Styles.
Fred McDowell, fue un cantante y guitarrista de blues, nacido en Rossville, Tennessee, el 12 de enero de 1904. Falleció en Memphis, el 3 de julio de 1972. Historial. Aprendió a tocar la guitarra muy tarde, en 1933, debido a la influencia que ejerció Charlie Patton sobre él.
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19 de jul. de 2017 · Story of blues master Mississippi Fred McDowell comes to life in new documentary. In 1959, folklorists Alan Lomax and Shirley Collins came to a farm near Como, Mississippi. There they would ...
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 intense and personal style ...
