Buster Brown

Genres:	Blues
Descriptive "tags":	blues
Decades Active:	1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s

Biography

Wayman Glasco, 15 August 1911, Cordele, Georgia, USA, d. 31 January 1976, Brooklyn, New York, USA. Brown played harmonica at local clubs and made a few recordings, including ‘I’m Gonna Make You Happy’ in 1943. Brown moved to New York in 1956 where he was discovered by Fire Records owner Bobby Robinson while working in a chicken and barbecue joint. In 1959, he recorded the archaic-sounding blues, ‘Fannie Mae’, whose tough harmonica riffs took it into the US Top 40. His similar-sounding ‘Sugar Babe’ (1961) was covered in the UK by Jimmy Powell. In later years he recorded for Checker Records and for numerous small labels including Serock, Gwenn and Astroscope.

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