McDowell, Fred (Personal Name)
- McDowell, Mississippi Fred
My home is in the Delta. [Phonodisc] 1965?
His Levee camp blues [SR] 1980?: container (Fred McDowell; b. ca. 1906, Rossville, Tenn.)
His A dose of double dynamite [SR] p1985: label (Mississippi Fred McDowell)
Santelli, R. Big book of blues, 2001 (McDowell, Mississippi Fred; b. Jan. 12, 1904, Rossville, Tenn., d. July 3, 1972, Memphis, Tenn.)
Social Security death index on Ancestry.com, Aug. 23, 2001 (Fred McDowell; b. Jan. 12, 1906, d. July 1972)
Information from 678 converted Dec. 15, 2014 (Mississippi blues singer and guitarist; d. 7/3/72)
American National Biography Online, accessed March 03, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (McDowell, Mississippi Fred; Fred McDowell; songwriter, blues musician, singer, guitarist, jazz musician; born 12 January 1904 in Rossville, Tennessee, United States; attended country dances, where he would sing rather than play guitar; moved to Mississippi for good sometime around 1940; made his festival debut at the University of Chicago Folk Festival (1963); recorded extensively for both American and European labels, including Capital which produced his 1969 Grammy-nominated album I Do Not Play No Rock and Roll; toured briefly with the Rolling Stones; widely considered the most important new rural blues discovery of the 1960s; died 03 July 1972 in Memphis, Tennessee, United States)