Description
Release Date: 2017
Label: Jasmine Records
Track List
Disc 1
1. GATEMOUTH BOOGIE
2. AFTER SUNSET
3. GUITAR IN MY HAND
4. WITHOUT ME BABY
5. DIDN’T REACH MY GOAL
6. ATOMIC ENERGY
7. MERCY ON ME
8. MY TIME’S EXPENSIVE
9. MARY IS FINE
10. 2’o CLOCK IN THE MORNING
11. BOOGIE RAMBLER
12. I’VE BEEN MISTREATED
13. IT CAN NEVER BE THAT WAY
14. SHE WALKS RIGHT IN
15. WIN WITH ME BABY
16. I LIVE MY LIFE
17. JUSTICE BLUES
18. PALE DRY BOOGIE (Part 1)
19. PALE DRY BOOGIE (Part 2)
20. SHE WINKED HER EYE
21. SAD HOUR
22. TOO LATE BABY
23. TAKING MY CHANCES
Disc 2
1. JUST GOT LUCKY
2. BABY TAKE IT EASY
3. YOU GOT MONEY
4. DIRTY WORK AT THE CROSSROADS
5. BOOGIE UPROAR
6. HURRY BACK, GOOD NEWS
7. PLEASE TELL ME BABY
8. GATE WALKS TO BOARD
9. MIDNIGHT HOUR
10. FOR NOW, SO LONG
11. GOOD LOOKING WOMAN
12. THAT’S YOUR DADDY-YADDY-YO
13. OKIE DOKIE STOMP
14. DEPRESSION BLUES
15. GATE’S SALTY BLUES
16. ROCK MY BLUES AWAY
17. SEPTEMBER SONG
18. AIN’T THAT DANDY
19. JUST BEFORE DAWN
20. SWINGIN’ THE GATE
21. SLOP TIME
22. GATE’S TUNE
Notes
Clarence ‘Gatemouth’ Brown was more than just a blues musician; throughout his long career he embraced many of the tributaries of American music. As well as being a superb guitarist, influenced heavily, like B. B. King, on the style of T-Bone Walker, he was also a proficient violin, mandolin, fiddle and harmonica player.
The 2CD set features the A and B side of all his releases between 1947 and 1961, and brings together all of his earliest singles for the Peacock label on one collection.
Despite receiving very little chart success many of his singles were highly original and are now so famous it becomes difficult to understand why, ‘Boogie Uproar’ ‘Okie Dokie Stomp’, ‘Gate Walks To Board’ and many others were staples for bar bands for years to come and were a huge influence over guitarists like Johnny Winter, Anson Funderburgh and Stevie Ray Vaughan.
He didn’t like to be called a bluesman but whether he liked it or not he was undeniably a major influence over the genre throughout his lifetime.
