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Fred McDowell, auch bekannt als Mississippi Fred McDowell, war als Sänger und Gitarrist ein Vertreter des Hill Country Blues einer regionalen Variante des Country Blues.
Fred McDowell (January 12, 1904 – July 3, 1972), known by his stage name Mississippi Fred McDowell, was an American singer, songwriter and guitarist.
Fred McDowell (January 12 1904 – July 3 1972) (also known as Mississippi Fred McDowell) was a Delta blues singer and guitar player. His parents died when he was young.
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".
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 […]
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.
19. Juli 2017 · There they would discover a slide guitarist of singular power and uncommon elegance, a 51-year-old sharecropper by the name of Fred McDowell. Lomax — who had been involved in discovering Son...
