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    • May 27, 1971
    Bob Dunn, steel player for Milton Brown's Brownies, dies of lung cancer in Houston, Texas. In January 1935, he became the first person to play on a country recording with an electric instrument
    Dec 24, 1978
    Derwood Brown, a guitarist with the western swing band Milton Brown's Musical Brownies, dies in Fort Worth, Texas. In addition to his work with The Brownies, he appeared on the seminal Fort Worth Doughboys single "Sunbonnet Sue"
    Sep 18, 1984
    Lefty Perkins, a member of The Light Crust Doughboys and Milton Brown's Musical Brownies, dies of cancer. The guitarist joined the Brownies in 1936 after the departure of steel player Bob Dunn
    Nov 28, 1991
    Bass player Wanna Coffman dies from pneumonia at a nursing home in Whitney, Texas. Coffman was the last surviving member of Milton Brown's influential western swing band, The Musical Brownies
    Aug 25, 2000
    Swing fiddler Cliff Bruner dies at his Houston home. Bruner was briefly one of Milton Brown's Musical Brownies before forming his own band, which served as a springboard for keyboard player Moon Mullican and steel legend Bob Dunn
    Sep 16, 2019
    Episode two of PBS' "Country Music: A Film By Ken Burns" features a bundle of 1930s recordings, including Milton Brown & His Brownies' "Going Up Brushy Fork," The Coon Creek Girls' "Pretty Polly" and The Delmore Brothers' "The Nashville Blues"
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