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Andrew Brown - Big Brown's Blues
Genre: Blues; Styles: Chicago Blues, Modern Electric BluesRecorded: 1964-1984; Released: 2006; Label: Black Magic
File: mp3; 320 Kbps; Size: 338.0 MB; Time: 142:00 min.
Included artwork: Booklet
More info:
http://koti.mbnet.fi/wdd/andrewbrown.htm
File: mp3; 320 Kbps; Size: 338.0 MB; Time: 142:00 min.
Included artwork: Booklet
More info:
http://koti.mbnet.fi/wdd/andrewbrown.htm
CD1
01. No More Talking (3:16)
02. Your Love Is Important to Me (3:47)
03. Mary Jane (4:19)
04. It's Your Fault (6:04)
05. What's in It for Me (2:00)
06. Love Me (4:35)
07. You Started Something (3:16)
08. Tin Pan Alley (4:35)
09. I Want to Do Everything for You (3:38)
10. You're Gonna Need Me (4:29)
11. You Better Stop (2:59)
12. You Ought to Be Ashamed (2:32)
13. Can't Let You Go (2:42)
14. For Liz (2:29)
15. Blue Monday (4:16)
16. (You Made Me) Suffer (3:43)
17. Got to Find a Way (2:31)
18. Share Your Love (2:42)
19. Something Can Go Wrong (2:08)
20. Let's Get Together (2:07)
21. First Love (2:41)
22. If We Try (2:39)
CD2
01. Losing Hand (4:57)
02. This Time You Gonna Pay (3:16)
03. Can't Let You Go (3:31)
04. Lead Me On (3:49)
05. I'm So Tired (2:47)
06. It Took a Long Time (5:53)
07. Blues Do Something to Me (3:11)
08. Right Now (4:50)
09. Spring (3:15)
10. I Can Hear My Baby Talking (5:06)
11. On the Case (3:58)
12. You Were Meant for Me (4:01)
13. Easy Now (2:58)
14. Baby Don't You Worry (3:19)
15. On the Case (4:45)
16. Prove It to Me (5:27)
17. It Took a Long Time (3:04)
CD1: Tracks: 1-10, Big Brown's Chicago Blues
Andrew Brown (guitar & vocals), Otis Webster (guitar), Oliver
Miller (piano), Sperlin Banks (bass), Steve Wilson (drums)
Recorded in Chicago, 1981.
Produced by Dick Shurman
© 1982 Black Magic Records
CD2: Tracks: 1-11, On The Case
Andrew Brown (guitar & vocals), Jimmy Johnson (guitar),
Eddie Lusk Jr. (keyboards), Spurling Banks (bass), Steve
Wilson and Jerry Porter (drums), Al Irono (sahophone)
Recorded in Chicago, 1983 & 1984.
Produced by Dick Shurman
© 1985 Double Trouble Records
Recorded in Chicago between 1964 & 1984.
© 2006 Black Magic Records
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http://home.tiscali.nl/blackmagicrecords.nl
There have been so many examples of blues artists who produced a small number of recordings whose recordings were highly prized by those who heard them but never reach the more general acclaim that their music deserves. Its been over twenty years since singer-guitarist Andrew Brown (1937-1985, the Mississippi native moved to Chicago in 1946) passed away after recording some excellent 45s, several tracks for Alligator's Living Chicago Blues series and two superb albums for Dutch Labels: Black Magic and Double Trouble.
The Black Magic label has made almost all of Brown's recordings available (the issued Alligator tracks excluded) on a wonderful limited edition reissue, Big Brown Blues. Packed in a book sized package, the contents of the two discs include his issued 45s for the USA, Four Brothers and Brave label and a pair of unissued titles from Brave; two unissued songs from the sessions used for the Living Chicago Blues series; the contents of his Black Magic and Double Trouble CDs and three demos recorded at Andrew's basement. The booklet contains a bio from Bill Dahl and producer Dick Shurman's recollections of Andrew and his music. As Shurman observes.
Influences on Brown include B.B. King, Lowell Fulson and T-Bone Walker, but in listening to these, his music struck as very similar to that of the late Little Milton. Like Milton, Brown was not only a fleet guitarist, but also a wonderful songwriter. Magic Sam covered Brown's USA 45, You Better Stop, but there are any number of strong modern urban blues with sophisticated lyrics, sung with heart, while his guitar playing embellished, not overwhelmed, his vocals.
He moves from a rocking shuffle like No More Talking to the blues ballad Your Love is Important to Me, then taking up a funk groove on Mary Jane. Dick Shurman had him cover some songs on the two albums with Tin Pan Alley, perhaps the best known song that he makes his own, but other songs covered include his terrific take on James 'Thunderbird' Davis' Blue Monday, Joe Tex's I Want to Do (Everything For You), and a Bobby Bland classic, 'Lead Me On'. A few numbers are a bit more directed towards the straight soul market, but are also delivered so convincingly.
Having Brown's two albums and his hard to find singles, it's delight to have this wonderful reissue available by a person who should be much better known among a broader range of blues fans. His 'mellow' blues styling is akin to such other neglected past blues masters Mighty Joe Young and Fenton Robinson and is better than a lot of what is purported to be blues today.
The Black Magic label has made almost all of Brown's recordings available (the issued Alligator tracks excluded) on a wonderful limited edition reissue, Big Brown Blues. Packed in a book sized package, the contents of the two discs include his issued 45s for the USA, Four Brothers and Brave label and a pair of unissued titles from Brave; two unissued songs from the sessions used for the Living Chicago Blues series; the contents of his Black Magic and Double Trouble CDs and three demos recorded at Andrew's basement. The booklet contains a bio from Bill Dahl and producer Dick Shurman's recollections of Andrew and his music. As Shurman observes.
Influences on Brown include B.B. King, Lowell Fulson and T-Bone Walker, but in listening to these, his music struck as very similar to that of the late Little Milton. Like Milton, Brown was not only a fleet guitarist, but also a wonderful songwriter. Magic Sam covered Brown's USA 45, You Better Stop, but there are any number of strong modern urban blues with sophisticated lyrics, sung with heart, while his guitar playing embellished, not overwhelmed, his vocals.
He moves from a rocking shuffle like No More Talking to the blues ballad Your Love is Important to Me, then taking up a funk groove on Mary Jane. Dick Shurman had him cover some songs on the two albums with Tin Pan Alley, perhaps the best known song that he makes his own, but other songs covered include his terrific take on James 'Thunderbird' Davis' Blue Monday, Joe Tex's I Want to Do (Everything For You), and a Bobby Bland classic, 'Lead Me On'. A few numbers are a bit more directed towards the straight soul market, but are also delivered so convincingly.
Having Brown's two albums and his hard to find singles, it's delight to have this wonderful reissue available by a person who should be much better known among a broader range of blues fans. His 'mellow' blues styling is akin to such other neglected past blues masters Mighty Joe Young and Fenton Robinson and is better than a lot of what is purported to be blues today.
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