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,
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"
Yes, but Charles does it best. So smooth.
That's an Amos Milburn tune.--don
Don sez:
That's an Amos Milburn tune.
Ah Is there a CD I can hear that on
--junior
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)
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
