Black, Brown And White

Album: Black, Brown & White (1938)
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Songfacts®:

  • This early Broonzy composition is a comment on the Jim Crow laws of the Deep South. Born in Mississippi and raised in Arkansas, Broonzy was one of 17 children in a family of sharecroppers - he grew up working the fields while also learning guitar. As a young man, he traveled north to Chicago, and after paying his dues like the vast majority of time-serving musicians, he found both fame and fortune including in Europe, where he traveled extensively.

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