Re: RIP Charles Brown
At 10:37 AM 1/22/99 -0800, you wrote: Charles Brown Passes Ah, this is very sad. He was one of my favorite performers -- always a very classy guy. Had the pleasure of being right up front when he was presented a birthday cake at the Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival a couple years ago. "Bad, Bad Whiskey" ought to be a P2 theme song. Jamie D.
Re: RIP Charles Brown
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Jamie DePolo wrote: Ah, this is very sad. He was one of my favorite performers -- always a very classy guy. Had the pleasure of being right up front when he was presented a birthday cake at the Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival a couple years ago. "Bad, Bad Whiskey" ought to be a P2 theme song. That's an Amos Milburn tune.--don
Re: RIP Charles Brown
Yes, but Charles does it best. So smooth. That's an Amos Milburn tune.--don
Re: RIP Charles Brown
Don sez: That's an Amos Milburn tune. Ah Is there a CD I can hear that on --junior
Re: RIP Charles Brown
Charles Brown Passes Well, that's sad. He was "too young" to die already! I saw him in concert in that 1995 Bonnie Raitt tour -- glad I did. I loved the way he played the piano! Lianne np: Road Tested (the live album from that tour)
Re: RIP Charles Brown
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".
