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The Bio of Kenny Brown
Although R.L. Burnside is fond of calling Kenny Brown his adopted son, it is really the sadly under-recorded North Mississippi bluesman Joe Callicot who was the first musician to take Kenny under his wing. At ten years old, Brown was playing with Callicot after school every day, simultaneously absorbing the hypnotic sound of Othar Turner’s fife and drum band, a fixture at picnics across the road from Kenny’s Nesbit, Mississippi, home. By eighteen, he had also apprenticed with local harmonica ace Johnny Woods, as well as Mississippi Fred McDowell. Soon after that, Kenny Brown became R.L. Burnside’s right-hand man, which he has remained for twenty years. |