Biography
USA. Brown was an associate of the Tennessee musicians who accompanied Sleepy John Estes, and whose guitar is heard on Brown’s first record. Jimmy Rogers recalled him as an irascible paranoid, and Hammie Nixon, who last saw him in the late 60s, recalls that when they first met as hobos, Brown was on the run from a murder charge. Brown recorded sporadically from 1937-40, and also had two records issued in 1946, making several versions of his theme song, ‘Little Girl, Little Girl’. He was a limited pianist - his best records are those on which Sammy Price plays piano as part of a small jazz band - and his laconic, unemotional singing was perhaps an attempt to emulate the success of Curtis Jones.
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