Sad indeed. Brown had this very special niche and loads of direct
imitators; arguably, only Nat King Cole himself was the compeition, and he
moved to the outskirts of town). But Brown stuck around long enough to
see it was appreciated and revived. Those late night piano bar
fine-cooked smoothie blues have their role as much as the raw stuff, and
this was a man as good at it as anybody. He'll be missed.
Barry M.
>Some sad news to pass along.--don
>Charles Brown passed away peacefully in his sleep at 11:10 pm Thursday,...
>Brown was best
>known as being an originator of the West Coast "cool blues" sound and for
>his songs, "Driftin' Blues" and the Christmas staple, "Merry Christmas Baby".
