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(Route 66) 16 tracks Charles Brown is one of the most original and yet most underrated... more

Charles Brown: Sunny Road (LP)

(Route 66) 16 tracks

Charles Brown is one of the most original and yet most underrated artists in blues history today. Charles created a soft but very expressive style of blues which developed in the club atmosphere of Los Angeles in the late 1940s and early -50s. This so called "club blues" was a unique blend of the rough Texas blues tradition and the glamorous Hollywood atmosphere. For many years Charles' warm, reflective voice, combined with his vibrant piano playing was hugely influential on the evolution of R&B. From 1946-52 he scored with 20 hits (9 under his own name. 11 as part of Johnny Moore's Three Blazers) in the R&B Top Ten, some of which are included in this album. Floyd Dixon (Route 66 KIX-1), Ray Charles and Amos Milburn (Route 66 KIX-7) are only three important figures in R&B who were strongly inspired by Charles. Among the host of artists who have paid their respect to him by recording his songs are Muddy Waters, Fats Domino, Chuck Berry, James Brown and the late Otis Redding and Elvis Presley, both of whom made their own celebrated versions of "MERRY CHRISTMAS BABY".

Article properties: Charles Brown: Sunny Road (LP)

  • Interpret: Charles Brown

  • Album titlle: Sunny Road (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: 4000127715968

  • weight in Kg 0.21
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 Night paced 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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