Milton Brown and the Founding of Western Swing
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Fort Worth
Fort Worth musicians
Great Depression
history of country music
history of Western Swing
Light Crust Doughboys
Milton Brown
Milton Brown discography
Milton Brown recordings
music in the Great Depression
Musical Brownies
recordings
Texas musicians
Western Swing
Western Swing artists
Western Swing bandleaders
Western Swing vocalists
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- ISBN 9780252020414
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 1994
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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A few weeks before his death in an auto accident, Milton Brown and his band the Musical Brownies recorded forty-nine songs in a single three-day session. That prolific output was a testament to Brown's enormous popularity not only on record but as head of the premier touring act in the Southwest. Cary Ginell draws on interviews and his own musical knowledge to chart Brown's too-short career. Ginell sees Brown as the first key figure to merge blues, jazz, and country into the genre that artists like Bob Wills and Spade Cooley later popularized as Western Swing. Following Brown from his early years to his rise via the Fort Worth dance hall scene, Ginell traces the evolution of the singer-bandleader's musical innovations like adding vocals to dance music and his band's adoption of a style heavy with rhythm and blues. In 1936, Brown and his band stood at the brink of national stardom when Brown's car hit a telephone pole. He died five days later.
Cary Ginell is a music historian, broadcaster, archivist, and Grammy-nominated writer. His books include The Discography of Western Swing and Hot String Bands, 1928-1942 and Walk Tall: The Music and Life of Julian Cannonball Adderley.
