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(Route 66) 16 tracks, gatefold cover Highly influential blues and rhythm & blues singer and...more

Charles Brown: Race Track Blues (LP)

(Route 66) 16 tracks, gatefold cover

Highly influential blues and rhythm & blues singer and pianist, born September 13, 1922 in Texas City, Texas, USA, died January 21, 1999 in Oakland, California, USA.
Brown began his career as a singer and pianist in Johnny Moore's Three Blazers in the mid-1940s and continued to make countless records, his last album for Verve being released in 1998.
In 1999 he was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame (Early Influence).

Article properties:Charles Brown: Race Track Blues (LP)

  • Interpret: Charles Brown

  • Album titlle: Race Track Blues (LP)

  • Genre R&B, Soul

  • Label ROUTE 66

  • Geschwindigkeit 33 U/min
  • Vinyl record size LP (12 Inch)
  • Record Grading Mint (M)
  • Sleeve Grading Mint (M)
  • Artikelart LP

  • EAN: 4000127715944

  • weight in Kg 0.21
Brown, Charles - Race Track Blues (LP) LP 1
01Juke Box LilCharles Brown
02Race Track BluesCharles Brown
03More Than You KnowCharles Brown
04Changeable Woman BluesCharles Brown
05Snuff Dippin' MamaCharles Brown
06Free Lancin' AgainCharles Brown
07Peek A BooCharles Brown
08Jilted BluesCharles Brown
09Homesick BluesCharles Brown
10TomorrowCharles Brown
11Did You Ever Love A WomanCharles Brown
12Hard TimesCharles Brown
13Let's WalkCharles Brown
14Without Your LoveCharles Brown
15My Silent LoveCharles Brown
16It's A Sin To Tell A LieCharles Brown
Charles Brown and His Band After tearing up the postwar R&B charts with their mellow,... more
"Charles Brown"

Charles Brown and His Band

After tearing up the postwar R&B charts with their mellow, cosmopolitan brand of West Coast club blues, pianist and front man Charles Brown came to a parting of the ways with Johnny Moore's Three Blazers (Moore's brother, the equally dazzling guitarist Oscar Moore, joined the act in 1947). The Blazers' personal hit parade for the Exclusive label included Sunny Road, New Orleans Blues, and the immortal Yuletide perennial Merry Christmas Baby, but they broke up nonetheless.

"Johnny Moore got so greedy. They took a lot of money that was supposed to divide and brought home, but he left us out of the picture, Eddie Williams and I, who was the bass player. So it became a problem, not getting along, and I decided to quit,"said Brown."I left them in '48 and organized my own group, called Charles Brown & The Smarties. I went back to Aladdin Records."

The hits came immediately for Brown at Aladdin: Get Yourself Another Fool and the R&B chart-topping Trouble Blues in 1949 and the mournful Black Night, cut December 21, 1950 at Radio Recorders in L.A. with Jesse Ervin's guitar work solidly in the Moore tradition, were among the biggest. Penned by L.A. female songsmith Jessie Mae Robinson, Black Nightpaced the R&B hit parade for 14 weeks in 1951. "Everything I was doing was a big hit with them,"said Charles of his Aladdin hookup. But the good times didn't last. Brown took his final bow on the R&B charts for almost a decade the next year (a holiday offering, Please Come Home For Christmas, brought him back briefly in 1960), and a 1958 dispute with his booking agency laid him low for years as a live act.

"I became a scab musician,"he explained. "I couldn't work in no place unless I paid the union. Well, I couldn't work because I didn't have nobody booking me. So I went into seclusion. That's how I came off the scene."The drought ended during the '80s, when Europe began to beckon. Then in 1990, Bonnie Raitt booked Charles as her opening act. "That really started the ball rolling for me," he said. 

Brown died January 21, 1999 after a full decade back in the spotlight. "I did do something that I thought was part of me, and that the people recognize," Brown said."I can go to my grave thinking that I did do something that got recognition."

Bill Dahl
Chicago, Illinois

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