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Stick McGhee

Stick McGhee has been played on NTS shows including Throwing Shade, with My Baby Gone Home first played on 7 September 2013.

Stick (or Sticks) McGhee (Granville Henry McGhee, March 23, 1917 – August 15, 1961) was an African-American jump blues guitarist, singer and songwriter, best known for his rhythm & blues song, "Drinkin' Wine, Spo-Dee-O-Dee".

He was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, and Granville received his nickname during the early years, when he was pushing his older brother, Brownie McGhee, who was stricken with polio, in a wagon with a stick. Granville began playing the guitar when he was thirteen years old. After his freshmen…

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My Baby Gone Home
Sonny Terry, J.C. Burris, Sticks McGhee
Folkways Records1959
My Baby Gone Home
Sonny Terry, J.C. Burris, Sticks McGheeFolkways Records1959
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