Buddy Moss & Brownie McGhee Buddy’s Harmonica Blues Live July 18th 1969

Eugene “Buddy“ Moss (January 16, 1914 – October 19, 1984) was an American blues musician. He is considered one of the most influential East Coast blues guitarists to record in the period between Blind Blake’s final sessions in 1932 and Blind Boy Fuller’s debut in 1935 (the other being Josh White).A younger contemporary of Blind Willie McTell, Curley Weaver and Barbecue Bob, Moss was part of a coterie of Atlanta bluesmen. He was among the few of his era whose careers were reinvigorated by the blues revival of the 1960s and 1970s He began as a musical disciple of Blake. Moss’s career was halted in 1935 by a six-year jail term and then by the Second World War, but he lived long enough to be rediscovered in the 1960s, when he revealed that his talent had been preserved through the years. He was reputed to have been cantankerous and mistrusting of others. Walter Brown “Brownie“ McGhee (November 30, 1915 – February 16, 1996) was an African-American folk music and Piedmo
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