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Reverend or Blind Pearly Brown August 18, — June 28, was an American singer and guitarist, known primarily as a street performer.

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He also played harmonica and accordion. Brown's repertoire included gospel blues , blues , country , and spirituals. His bottleneck style of slide guitar inspired Georgia rock and roll musicians. He was born in Abbeville, Wilcox County, Georgia , and was blind from birth. While still young, he relocated with his family to Americus, Sumter County, Georgia.

A schoolteacher, recognizing his determination to succeed, arranged a place for him at the Georgia Academy for the Blind in Macon, Georgia , where he completed eight years of formal education and learned Braille. After graduating, he was ordained as minister by the Friendship Baptist Church of Americus. Brown spent the s in Florida and Georgia as a minister, a bean picker, [ 2 ] and—by —as a street musician.

Brown himself was jailed himself in Macon for singing on the street. He relied on the Trailways Bus Station to split is time between home and the larger city of Macon. Brown's career predated, permeated, and postdated the long civil rights era. Recalling the physical scars of slavery, Brown recalled, "She had stripes on her as big as my finger.

In , the Browns daughter, Pearl, was one of the African American children arrested for protesting segregation at the Martin Theater. She was imprisoned for weeks at the Leesburg Stockade. Photographs and videos show him playing both six-string guitar both conventional acoustic and resonator , often using a bottleneck and twelve-string guitar.

The documentary It's a Mean Old World captures the style of his street performance: walking slowly along the sidewalk, singing and playing, with a handwritten sign around his neck reading "I am a blind preacher.