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Tuesday, September 13, 2005
They Saved Fats, But Not GatemouthThis took me long enough to notice, but Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown died last week in Orange, Texas, after losing his New Orleans property in the hurricane. He was 81.
A little sample of his life from the web site:
He started as a drummer, but launched his career as a guitarist in 1947, when he picked up ailing headliner T-Bone Walker’s guitar at Houston’s Peacock Club and proceeded to tear the place apart, earning $600 in tips, quite a haul in 1947 dollars. And keeping with the Zappa theme:
The list of insomniac Gatemouth Brown disciples is a very long one, including everyone from Guitar Slim to Frank Zappa, Albert Collins to Stevie Ray Vaughan. UPDATE: Here's a tribute in Russian.
posted by Michael Scott Moore |
6:33 PM
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