You can't watch this and not shed tears. The idea that Brownie lived the Blues, he lived life, through ups and downs, Brownies music will live on forever. Blues is truth, don't forget that. 😭
Not only his but soo many of the greats, Bob Dylan, eric, Jimmy, many of the greats! but Bert was the only one to get footage playing together! Legend.
I first heard of Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee in 1976 I was 13 at the time and fell in love with the music. Great memories. Thank you for the upload. Much appreciated. Here's 2 songs I recorded from Sonny and Brownie. Cheers Walk On: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--hh_C827p3E.html Back Door Sunshine: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xcFRPXLY2Gc.html
First noticed Jansch as the writer of "Angie", an instrumental recorded early on by Paul Simon. Never dreamt he interacted with Brownie,, who did my live broadcast with Sonny Terry in the Seventies. Interesting to see him talk frankly here about the "resentment" in his early music.
@@LEMANPRODUCTIONSARCHIVE Yes seems like yesterday I bought first Pentangle record in 1968 lol Been listening to all of them ever since and everything they ever did. I owe so much for the influence they all had including Brownie and Big Bill Broonzy for my guitar playing and song writing
Thank you so much for uploading this! I finally tracked down a copy of the 20th Anniversary book/boxset too. Very hard to find in the states. With this upload more people will be able to see this great documentary!
Many thanks for your kind note. Much appreciated. The power of Brownie's testimony still resonates and it was an honour for all involved to help capture Brownie and Bert together. "Make sure you leave footprints in the sands of time!"
I don't know who it was, or when it was, but later in their career as a duet, Sonny was having this young white guy travel with them & he was teaching him harp, or something. Of course, by that time it was well known that Sonny &Brownie didn;t speak much to each other, off stage. So, eventually it got to the point that they would speak to this young white guy with them & tell him to relay that, back & forth. So one day, Brownie said to that guy that he was *The Panama Canal*. Why? Brownie explained it: The Panama Canal is a narrow strip of water between Two Great Oceans. What else: I had no idea that Brownie was so well adept at playing Blues Piano. I first saw them up in Porltand Oregon, 1964-5 when I was in Peace Corps Training. The Corps was liberal & Harry Belefonte was performing & wanted to meet us. We went to the theater & Sonny & Brownie opened that show. They brought the house down, & no one paid great attention to Belefonte's performance after that, & he didn't care because he was doing great anyway. It may even have been that he was *helping* in having them open for that tour.
