Hambone Willie Newbern
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William "Hambone Willie" Newbern (c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – 1947 or April 15, 1965)[1] was an American country blues musician who was active from the 1920s to the 1940s.[2]
Biography
Few details are known of Newbern's life. He is believed to have been born in Haywood County, Tennessee,[1] in or around Brownsville, along Tennessee State Route 19.[3][4][5] A guitarist, singer, and mandolin player,[6][7] Newburn was reported to have played with Yank Rachell and Sleepy John Estes (who provided many biographical details about Newbern) in the 1920s and 1930s.[8] Newburn recorded one of the earliest known versions of the blues standard "Rollin' and Tumblin'", which was waxed in Atlanta, Georgia in 1929.[9] He only recorded six sides in total, all for Okeh Records, which also included "She Could Toodle-Oo" and "Hambone Willie's Dreamy-Eyed Woman's Blues."[8]
Through Newbern was reputedly hot-tempered, reports that he was beaten to death in a prison brawl around 1947[8] are disputed by researchers Bob Eagle and Eric LeBlanc, who assert that he died at his home in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1965.[1]
References
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External links
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- African-American guitarists
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- Deaths by beating in the United States
- 20th-century American guitarists
- People from Haywood County, Tennessee
- Singers from Memphis, Tennessee
- 20th-century African-American male singers
- 20th-century American male singers
- 20th-century American singers