The 1960s were unkind to Gatemouth Brown. The blues being revived weren’t his kind of big-band postwar boogie, and a brief stay in Nashville confirmed only that the door had been closed right behind Charley Pride. So he settled first […]
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The first time I saw Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown play live some years back, I was amused to see him puffing away on the same kind of pipe as my dad. The joke got even better when I went back to […]
Late in life, Gatemouth Brown has returned to the brass and elegance with which he began recording in the late 1940s. His latest reprises much he learned in the interim, stirring the stew of Texas music that forever spices his […]
Though hardly an unknown, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown has rarely been the beneficiary of the kind of elder-statesman adulation that has attended the waning years of John Lee Hooker. True, Brown’s never had a hit the size of “Boogie Chillun”, but […]
Gatemouth Brown is 72 years of lean American history. His music remains vital, despite his age, and spans an enormous repertoire of styles. Legend has it he picked up T-Bone Walker’s ax during a break at Houston’s Golden Peacock in […]
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