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Rich Brown (blues musician)

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Uncle Rich Brown
John Lomax and Brown shaking hands in Sumterville, Alabama, in 1940
Background information
Birth name	Richard Brown
Also known as	"Uncle"
Born	Alabama, U.S.
Genres	Blues
Occupation(s)	Singer

Richard Brown, also known as Uncle Rich Brown, was an American musician and singer of spirituals^[1][2] and blues. He lived on one plantation near Sumterville, Alabama, all his life.^[1] John Lomax recorded him in 1937 and 1940 singing eleven songs,^[2] most of them spirituals.^[1] One of his most popular recordings was "Alabama Bound".

References[edit]

• Olivia Solomon; Jack Solomon (2002). Honey in the Rock: The Ruby Pickens Tartt Collection of Religious Folk Songs from Sumter County, Alabama. Mercer University Press. p. 1986. ISBN 978-0-86554-827-5.
• Walter Bruyninckx, ed. (1980). 60 years of recorded jazz 1917–1977. Vol. 2. W. Bruyninckx.
• Catherine A. Stewart (February 5, 2016). Long Past Slavery: Representing Race in the Federal Writers' Project. University of North Carolina Press. p. 99. ISBN 978-1-4696-2627-7.