Brushy One String

Andrew Chin, better known by the stage name Brushy One String, is a Jamaican reggae singer and bassist. He performs with a guitar that only has one string. A video of him performing his hit song "Chicken in the Corn" was uploaded to YouTube in 2013; as of February 2025, it had been viewed over 67 million times.

Brushy One String in 2015

Early life

Andrew Chin is the son of Jamaican reggae singer Freddie McKay.^[1] According to Chin, the idea of playing a guitar with a single string "came to him in a dream."^[2]

Career

In performances, Chin plays an acoustic guitar with only one string, using the body of the guitar as percussion.^[3][1][2]

Luciano Blotta, who met Chin while in Jamaica shooting his 2007 documentary Rise Up, used his song "Chicken in the Corn" in the soundtrack of the movie.^[2] He later played at music festivals such as South by Southwest, New Orleans House of Blues, and New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.^[1][4]

In 2014, The King of One String, a documentary about his musical career, was released.^[5]

In 2019, Chin and actor-comedians Lauren Lapkus, Paul F. Tompkins and Scott Aukerman played Chicken in the Corn on their podcast Threedom. The podcast promoted Brushy's Kickstarter to create a new studio album,^{[6][better source needed]} which was fully funded.^{[citation needed]}

Discography

Studio albums

• Do You Really Love Me? (1996) – only released in Japan
• Destiny (2013)^[2]
• No Man Stop Me (2016)
• All You Need Is One (2019)

Live albums

• Live at New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival (2015)

Compilations

• The King of One String – Acoustic (2010)

Filmography

• Rise Up^[7] (2007)
• The King of One String^[5] (2014)
• The Psychiatrist^{[citation needed]} (2021)