Rev Pearly Brown.

Quite possibly the last of the great blues street singers, Rev. Pearly Brown was born August 18, 1915, in Abbeville, Georgia. Blind from birth, he grew up in Americus, Georgia, where he reportedly learned to play guitar at the age of seven. As a young man he began to busk on the streets in Americus, eventually moving on to Macon, where he was a fixture on the streets for several decades.
His repertoire drew heavily on Blind Willie Johnson, whose slide style he made his own. Like Johnson, he played a kind of blues gospel, singing spirituals and what Brown called "slave songs," along with country songs like "Great Speckled Bird" that had a strong spiritual content.

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Reverend Pearly Brown - Oh what a morning