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Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown: Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown - Rocks (CD)

1-CD (trifold digipak) with 36 page booklet, 29 tracks. Total playing time approx. 79 min.

T-Bone Walker, the 'inventor of the electric blues guitar', opened the gate and young guys like Johnny 'Guitar' Watson and Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown raced through!

In the late 1940s, young Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown first conquered the stages of his home state of Texas with incredible energy and speed.
Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown revolutionized the way of playing the electric guitar and remains a role model for whole generations of blues guitarists to this day.
Recordings from 1947 to 1960 for Aladdin and Peacock.
Compilation of Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown brilliant, up-tempo numbers - both instrumental and vocal!
Carefully mastered from the best possible sources.
Detailed and enjoyable biography by Bill Dahl in an extensive and illustrated booklet & discography.

One evening in 1947 T-Bone Walker and his band headlined the then popular and huge Bronze Peacock Club in Houston. Walker had to interrupt his show for health reasons - an opportunity that the 23-year-old did not miss. On the instructions of the club owner he took T-Bone Walker's guitar and went on stage. "It was the first time I played guitar in public. Well, this crowd, man, we had about 800 people in there, and it was an all black audience. And I went up there and immediately invented 'Gatemouth Boogie'. I made about $600 in tips in about 15 minutes. That was a lot of money back then."

Don Robey, the club owner, became his patron and producer. Dissatisfied with the first recordings produced for Aladdin in Los Angeles in 1947, he founded his first own record company, Peacock Records, for which Gatemouth produced exclusively until the early 1960s.

Chicago music historian and blues expert Bill Dahl has put together this luxuriously crafted CD album for Bear Family Records^®, featuring the most exciting and innovative faster guitar recordings of Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown. This is the most comprehensive and competent story about a chapter in Texas blues guitar history, which became so important for the future development of modern blues. The fat booklet contains the excitingly told biography, plus many photos, illustrations and a discography of the recordings on this album.

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Interpret: Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
Album titlle: Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown - Rocks (CD)
Genre Rock'n'Roll
Label Bear Family Records
Preiscode AR
Edition 2 Deluxe Edition
Artikelart CD
EAN: 5397102175374
weight in Kg 0.115

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01	Okie Dokie Stomp	Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
02	Baby Take It Easy	Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
03	Pale Dry Boogie -part I	Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
04	Without Me Baby	Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
05	I Live The Life	Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
06	Too Late Baby	Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
07	Mary Is Fine	Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
09	She Walks Right In	Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
10	Just Got Lucky	Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
11	Midnight Hour	Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
12	Ain't That Dandy	Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
13	Boogie Rambler	Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
14	You Got Money	Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
15	Gate Walks To Board	Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
16	Pale Dry Boogie -part 2	Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
17	Hurry Back Good News	Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
18	It Can Never Be That Way	Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
19	Gatemouth Boogie	Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
20	Gate's Salty Blues	Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
21	She Winked Her Eye	Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
22	Slop Time	Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
23	That's Your Daddy Yaddy Yo	Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
24	Atomic Energy	Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
25	Depression Blues	Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
26	Dirty Work At The Crossroad	Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
27	Just Before Dawn	Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
28	Swingin' The Gate	Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
29	Rock My Blues Away	Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown

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Clarence Gatemouth Brown

Copeland wasn't the only Texas blues guitar great undergoing a Rounder recording renaissance. Clarence ‘Gatemouth' Brown had maintained a fairly low profile during the 1960s and ‘70s after cutting some of the most innovative blues platters of the late ‘40s and early ‘50s for Don Robey's Peacock Records in Houston. Now he was back, equally conversant on guitar and fiddle and fiercely opposed to being classified as a bluesman. Country, jazz, calypso, swing—Gate played ‘em all proudly.

"I'm a musician. I play it all," said the late Brown. "I hate to be stuck in one bag. I don't ever want to be labeled, and I'm making sure of that!" Another highly versatile guitarist, country picker Roy Clark, got the ball rolling for Gate's big comeback by enlisting him to do a '79 duet album, ‘Makin' Music,' on MCA. "Roy walked in and asked me, ‘Let's do an album!" said Brown. "It was just a jam session, but it was pulled off very well."

Gate was on his own at Rounder. Produced by Jim Bateman and Scott Billington at Studio in the Country in Bogalusa, Louisiana, ‘Alright Again!' was Brown's first album for the firm in 1981, cut with his touring rhythm section including pianist Larry Sieberth, bassist Myron Dove, and drummer Lloyd Herrman along with a five-piece horn section. Brown got a trifle funky on his own droll Dollar Got The Blues, Stanton Davis, Jr. stepping up for a two-chorus trumpet solo. Gate's guitar sound had changed dramatically from his blasting early ‘50s attack. He was as fast as ever, but his advanced chops were now being utilized on a Gibson Firebird in an understated, jazzy way that sounded like nobody else.

"What I do is play horn lines on whatever instrument I'm playing," he said. "Whatever I'm playing, I try to bend it to the sound of myself. Then I don't use no pick, see. I can control my instrument, rather than the instrument controlling me." Brown always used a capo. "That's my trademark," he said. "That's the way I learned, that's the way I play."

Gate made many more discs for Rounder, Alligator, and Verve/Gitanes before he was diagnosed with lung cancer in 2004. Hurricane Katrina interrupted his final days in Slidell, Louisiana, and Brown died in his original hometown of Orange, Texas on September 10, 2005. His artistic scope was truly unmatched.

Bill Dahl
Chicago, Illinois

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