The Vinyl Countdown # 1102

Brownie McGhee, Facts of Life (1985)

One of the first blues musicians I ever heard – at least in the sense that I could put a name to it – was Brownie McGhee. My mum’s a big fan, she had some of his tracks on compilations and she had some of his albums, particularly the material with Sonny Terry. So in fact those were the two names I knew, and I guess pe…