Piney Brown

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Piney Brown (born January 20, 1922 in Birmingham (Alabama) , † February 5, 2009 in Dayton , Ohio ) was an American rhythm and blues singer and songwriter .

Live and act

Brown sang with his sisters in a gospel ensemble called The Blue Jay Singers as a teenager . When he heard the "Piney Brown Blues" ( Decca 1941) by Big Joe Turner and Pete Johnson , he decided to become a singer-songwriter . He made his record debut in 1947 when he was recording for Miracle Records ; Eddie Chamblee (saxophone) and Sonny Thompson (piano) played in his backing band . Brown signed a recording deal with Apollo Records in 1948 . In the 1950s he recorded for King Records ("Walk-A-Block-And-Fall / Whispering Blues", # 45-4636), Jubilee Records ("Ooh You Bring Out the Wolf in Me", # 45-5123 ) and Apollo ("That's Right Baby / How About Rocking With Me", # 418/423), also for Parrot , Sittin 'In With and Atlas . During this time, Brown toured the area between Taxes and Chicago frequently, before returning to Birmingham to care for his mother in the early 1960s. During these years he was traveling in the states of Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas. The guitarist Albert Collins played in his band from time to time .

In the 1960s, Brown made further recordings for labels such as Mad in Chicago ("Sugar in My Tea (Cream in My Coffee) / My Love") and for Cimarron and Sound Stage 7 in Nashville. In the later years he continued to appear in clubs, u. a. with Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry . As a songwriter, he wrote for Little Milton and Roscoe Gordon ; he co-wrote The Popcorn (with James Brown ) and Just Want a Little Bit (with Earl Washington , John Thornton, Ralph Bass , Sylvester Thompson); this song was u. a. Covered by Little Milton, Freddie King , T-Bone Walker , Elvis Presley and the bands The Animals ( Before We Were So Rudely Interrupted , 1977) and Slade . Brown only resumed in 2002 when his album One of These Days was created, which was released in 2006. From 1963 he lived in Dayton, where he died in 2009 after a long illness.

literature

  • Brian Baumgartner, Unheralded Legend of R&B and Still Singing the Blues: Piney Brown . Juke Blues No. 48

Web links

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Obituary
  2. ↑ The eponymous Walter "Little Piney" Brown, a friend of Turner, was the managing director of the Sunset Club in Kansas City, who died in 1940 (cf. Frank Büchmann-Møller Someone to Watch Over Me: The Life and Music of Ben Webster . University of Michigan Press 2008, as well as Frank Driggs , Chuck Haddix: Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime to Bebop - A History . Oxford 2005), which was very popular with musicians. The Joe Turner song Old Piney Brown is Gone (1948) also refers to the club owner.
  3. ^ Charles E. Coulter: Take Up the Black Man's Burden: Kansas City's African Communities, 1865-1939. Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, 2006, 120
  4. ^ Nathan Brackett, Christian David Hoard: The New Rolling Stone Album Guide . 2004, p
  5. ↑ http://myweb.clemson.edu/~campber/miracle.html
  6. ^ Billboard Nov. 20, 1948
  7. ↑ Nick Talevski Rock Obituaries - Knocking On Heaven's Door . 2010, page 95
  8. ↑ http://myweb.clemson.edu/~campber/mad.html
personal data
SURNAME Brown, Piney
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American R&B and blues singer and songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Birmingham, Alabama
DATE OF DEATH February 5, 2009
Place of death Dayton (Ohio)