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GATEMOUTH BROWN
Guitarist, fiddler, vocalist, swingster Gatemouth Brown hails from the rich musical territory along the Texas-Louisiana Gulf Coast. A genre-bending, oil-patch bluesman who 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. Non-smokers have no fear, the show is not offered with “smellaround sound,” but is does come with a music mix well-suited to Gatemouth’s eclectic sartorial taste for Hawai’an shirts and cowboy hats.
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