A Blog by Max Shores
My friend Will Morgan shot some video of Kenny Brown at the 2015 North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic which I would like to share here. Kenny and his wife Sara are the hosts of the annual music festival and a guitar workshop in which Will participated. You can find more of Will’s videos from the…
The Kenny Brown Band performs the Mississippi Fred McDowell song, “Write Me a Few Lines” at the 2011 North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic, an annual music festival held the last weekend in June. Shaky camera by Max Shores (http://maxshores.com) and sound recording by Reed Turchi. This entire set was recorded by vanark and is available…
Kenny Brown performs the country-style blues song “Shake ‘Em On Down” at the 2011 North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic, an annual music festival which he and his wife Sara organize on behalf of a non-profit organization established to promote the unique music of the north Mississippi hill country. The hill country was home to the…
Kenny Brown learned how to play guitar from Joe Callicott and R. L. Burnside. His guitar accompaniment was an important part of the sound of R. L. Burnside and Junior Kimbrough popularized by Fat Possum Records a few years ago. Now that both Burnside and Kimbrough have passed on, Kenny Brown plays and records with…