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GATEMOUTH BROWN
Genre-defying guitarist, fiddler, and vocalist Gatemouth Brown hails from the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast and loves country and Cajun music as much as jazz. He offers his tart opinions of life and art between puffs on that pungent pipe of his.
HOUR ONE
- Midnight Hour Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
Original Peacock Recordings, Rounder - A Message From the Meters The Meters
Anthology, Rhino - Close Together Jimmy Reed
18 Greatest Hits, Motown - Tongue Tied Jill Charlie Feathers
Get With It, Revenant - My Mumblin Baby Rudy Green
The Excello Story, Vol.2, Hip-O - Mumbles Clark Terry w/Oscar Peterson
Oscar Peterson Trio + One, Clark Terry, Mercury - Instrumental: Jambalaya Tuts Washington
New Orleans Piano Professor, Rounder - Grand Texas Wallace "Cheese" Reed
Cajun House Party, Arhoolie - Jambalaya (On The Bayou) Hank Williams
The Complete Hank Williams, Mercury - Jambalaya Professor Longhair
Mardi Gras in Baton Rouge, Rhino - The Kid from Red Bank Count Basie
The Complete Atomic Basie, Blue Note - INTERVIEW: Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
Listen - Instrumental: Zydeco Shuffle Sonny Landreth
(Almost) Everybody Slides, Rykodisc - Evil Hearted Woman T-Bone Walker
The Complete Imperial Recordings, 1950-1954, EMI - Fever Peggy Lee
The Best of Miss Peggy Lee, Capitol - Almost Blue Chet Baker
Songs of Elvis Costello, Rhino - Almost Blue Elvis Costello
Girls, Girls, Girls, Demon
HOUR two
- Cold Sweat Mongo Santamaria
Anthology, Rhino - Oye Como Va Tito Puente
50 Years of Swing, RMM - Begin the Beguine Sammy Davis Jr.
The Wham of Sam, Warner - Moin Aime Doudou Moin Rico's Creole Band
Biguine, Valse et Mazurka Créoles, FA007 - Groovin'High Charlie Parker
Yardbird Suite, Rhino - Instrumental: Lupus #1 Tom Morrell and the Time-warp Tophands
Go Uptown: How The West Was Swung, vol V, WR Records - I'm Alabama Bound Louis Jordan
Let The Good Times Roll -1938-1954, Bear Family - That's What I Like About the South Bob Wills
The King of Western Swing, ASV - Postcard Woody Simmons
- Instrumental: Exactly Like You Django Reinhardt
Nuages, Arkadia - Things Ain't What They Used To Be Lambert, Hendricks & Ross
The Hottest New Group In Jazz, Sony - Things Ain't What They Used To Be Richard 'Groove' Holmes
Blue Groove, Fantasy - Things I Used to Do Guitar Slim
Sufferin' Mind, Specialty - Trouble in Mind Aretha Franklin
Aretha Sings The Blues, Columbia - Troubled, Lord I'm Troubled Bill Landford & the Landfordaires
The Okeh Post-War Gospel Story, Sony - Place in the Sun David Isaacs
Tighten Up, Trojan - Sunny The John Schroeder Orchestra
Space Age Soul, Sequel
