Calt/Wardlow King of the Delta blues p. 150 middle paragraph
"By 1927 Will Brown and his wife Josie had left Drew for Memphis where both were to die (according to Dick Bankston and Ledell Johnson) around 1940."
Now the census info found on TDBlues that was referenced shows only one Willie Brown born at that time that was married to a Josie. We have been told repeatedly that the one Dick Bankston played with and the one Son House played with are two different Willies. So is there two Willie Browns, both about the same age, married to a woman with the same name, both being blues players, and both playing with Charlie Patton. The statistic probability of this seems astronomical. We are going largely on the differing physical descriptions given of the two Willies yet Honeyboy says in The world don?t owe me nothing page 95;
?Willie Brown was kind of a big, husky fellow; he was heavy. He worked on the farm and played with Son House.?
This is Bankston and Johnson that say that the Willie they know was a blues player that played with Charlie Patton with a wife named Josie. This does not add up.
Also on the same page from the link below is a quote from a larger paragraph from article author Jason Rewald, "Still, though, only one married Josie Mills. I also was pointed in the direction of another Census Record of Willie Brown (Wardlow pointed it out to me) that shows him married to Josie with four kids, living in Washington County. This info will be featured in an upcoming article."
If all this is accurate which it appears it very well is then new field research needs to be done. Thoughts?
http://www.tdblues.com/?p=891
"By 1927 Will Brown and his wife Josie had left Drew for Memphis where both were to die (according to Dick Bankston and Ledell Johnson) around 1940."
Now the census info found on TDBlues that was referenced shows only one Willie Brown born at that time that was married to a Josie. We have been told repeatedly that the one Dick Bankston played with and the one Son House played with are two different Willies. So is there two Willie Browns, both about the same age, married to a woman with the same name, both being blues players, and both playing with Charlie Patton. The statistic probability of this seems astronomical. We are going largely on the differing physical descriptions given of the two Willies yet Honeyboy says in The world don?t owe me nothing page 95;
?Willie Brown was kind of a big, husky fellow; he was heavy. He worked on the farm and played with Son House.?
This is Bankston and Johnson that say that the Willie they know was a blues player that played with Charlie Patton with a wife named Josie. This does not add up.
Also on the same page from the link below is a quote from a larger paragraph from article author Jason Rewald, "Still, though, only one married Josie Mills. I also was pointed in the direction of another Census Record of Willie Brown (Wardlow pointed it out to me) that shows him married to Josie with four kids, living in Washington County. This info will be featured in an upcoming article."
If all this is accurate which it appears it very well is then new field research needs to be done. Thoughts?
http://www.tdblues.com/?p=891