Artist: Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #65 Sep-Oct 2006
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown – Down South In The Bayou Country
The 1960s were unkind to Gatemouth Brown. The blues being revived weren’t his kind of big-band postwar boogie, and a brief stay in Nashville confirmed only that the door had been closed right behind Charley Pride. So he settled first in Bogotá, Colombia; then Denver, Colorado; and then, improbably, as a sheriff in Farmington, New [...]
Farther Along - Obituary from Issue #60 Nov-Dec 2005
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown: 1924 to 2005
This magazine exists largely to draw attention to undervalued artists, and yet in ten years we have managed to devote only one feature and a few small reviews to Gatemouth Brown, who died September 10 at age 81. He should have been on our cover at some point, and I am ashamed that it never [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #54 Nov-Dec 2004
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown – Timeless
The first time I saw Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown play live some years back, I was amused to see him puffing away on the same kind of pipe as my dad. The joke got even better when I went back to interview Brown between sets, and discovered the tobacco he’d been stuffing into that pipe wasn’t [...]
Miked - Live Reviews from Issue #51 May-June 2004
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown – Barns at Wolf Trap (Vienna, VA)
A cold and drizzly Thursday night found the Barns at Wolf Trap imbued with a bit of an early spring chill. The 18th-century barns — relocated from upstate New York more than 20 years ago and turned into a rustic cavern of timber one musician favorably likened to “playing inside an old guitar” — had [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #36 Nov-Dec 2001
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown – Sittin’ on the dock, with the world at bay
Friday, September 14, 2001. At the University of Wisconsin in Madison, 20,000 people are shoulder to shoulder on the Library Mall, honoring victims of the attacks in New York and Washington. The air is cool, but the sun is high and bright, intensifying all the red, white and blue. A man wielding a tall flag [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #23 Sept-Oct 1999
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown – American Music Texas Style
Late in life, Gatemouth Brown has returned to the brass and elegance with which he began recording in the late 1940s. His latest reprises much he learned in the interim, stirring the stew of Texas music that forever spices his playing, turning his still considerable skills toward a set of mostly jazz standards. No longer [...]
Not Fade Away - Reissue Review from Issue #21 May-June 1999
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown – Blackjack
Though hardly an unknown, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown has rarely been the beneficiary of the kind of elder-statesman adulation that has attended the waning years of John Lee Hooker. True, Brown’s never had a hit the size of “Boogie Chillun”, but more importantly, he’s been too country for blues. Born in 1924 in Vinton, Louisiana, Brown [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #4 Summer 1996
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown – Long Way Home
Gatemouth Brown is 72 years of lean American history. His music remains vital, despite his age, and spans an enormous repertoire of styles. Legend has it he picked up T-Bone Walker’s ax during a break at Houston’s Golden Peacock in 1947, and made $600 (and an enemy) in 15 minutes. He sings in an easy, [...]
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