Born: August 6, 1900 in Clarksdale, Mississippi
Died: December 30, 1952, in Tunca, Mississippi

Brown is best known for "Future Blues" and "M&O Blues" recorded for Paramount in 1930 (two other sides recorded at this session have never been located). Brown often played second guitarist for others, and can be heard on recordings by Son House, Charley Patton, and Louise Johnson.
According to reports from Alan Lomax and "Chasin' That Devil's Music, Searching for the Blues" by Gayle Dean Wardlow, he's not the William Brown ([a139481]) who recorded "Ragged And Dirty" and "Mississippi Blues" for Lomax in 1942.