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Cowboy Roy Brown – Street Singer
Delmark DE 790 (2007)
Compact Disc
Cowboy Roy Brown was born in Arkansas on April 20, 1875, the son of a preacher. He and his sister learned to play guitar from their father who they accompanied when he played violin in church. Butler County, incorporated in 1870, is a 36 by 26 mile plot on a bluff of the Black River in the Missouri Bootheel just across the border from Arkansas. One community in the county, Morocco, was formed of predominately African Americans. In his twenties, Roy visited St Louis during the 1904 World’s Fair and later moved to Kansas City, then Marion, Illinois and then drifted to Milwaukee and to Deadwood, South Dakota. Roy eventually returned to St Louis where he was a street singer performing with his guitar and catalog of blues, folk and cowboy tunes. Roy and his band – a guitar named “Baby” and a kazoo named “Leon” – performed cowboy standards & popular tunes.
Additional information
Weight | 4 oz |
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Dimensions | 6 × 5 × 0.5 in |