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🇯🇲 The legendary bluesman from rural Jamaica, putting the world to rights with one string. 😎𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗝𝗮𝗺 𝗝𝗮𝗿 𝗣𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀
𝗕𝗿𝘂𝘀𝗵𝘆 𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴
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𝗗𝗼𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝟳.𝟯𝟬𝗽𝗺
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗝𝗮𝗺 𝗝𝗮𝗿, 𝗕𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗹
Brushy did not have it easy: Orphaned at an early age, the thoughtful singer/songwriter did not learn to read until adulthood.
But he came by his musical abilities honestly. His father, revered Jamaican soul singer Freddy McKay, passed away when Brushy was still very young, but his mother, Beverly Foster, sang all the time (she had toured with the likes of Tina Turner as a backup singer).
Brushy tried his hand and voice at many styles, including playing pans on the street as a child. He even played guitar for a while as a youngster. “I didn’t really know how to play, and I played so hard, all the strings broke,” he recalls. “So the guitar just went under the bed.”
That is, until Brushy had a vision, a dream in which he was told to play the one-string guitar.
Shaken, he told some friends, who scoffed, but one insisted it was fate, and that he had to make that dream come true. Within a day, Brushy had created his one single-string arrangement of a popular tune on the radio. “The next day, I took a big broad hat and sunglasses and went to the market, and started to sing,” Brushy remembers.
And his way began. ✨✨✨
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The Jam Jar Bristol, 4a The Old Malt House, Little Ann Street, Bristol, United Kingdom
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