Biography

The multifaceted Louisiana roots guitarist Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown had a Hollywood start, filling in for the absent T-Bone Walker at a 1947 gig and winning over both the audience and the club's owner, impresario Don Robey. Robey went on to record Brown's Cajun-flavored, bluesy guitar instrumentals and R&B songs, whose fiery intensity presaged rock-&-roll. Not content to stick to one style, Brown also experimented with country and even calypso music, and mastered a wide range of instruments. He was popular overseas and went on many tours sponsored by the U.S. State Department, and even in his later years--his career boosted by some critically acclaimed albums on Rounder Records--he enjoyed a full touring and gigging schedule. The legendary musician died in 2005 of a combination of cancer, emphysema, and heart ailments.

Top Tracks

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• Ain't That Just Like A Woman

• Alligator Boogaloo

• Alligator Eating Dog

• Atomic Energy

• Baby Take It Easy

• Bayou Stomp

• Big Mammou

• Boogie Uproar

• Born In Louisiana

• Caldonia

• Digging New Ground

• Dirty Work At The Cross Road

• Dirty Work At The Crossroads

• Dixie Chicken

• Don't Get Around Much Anymore

• Early In The Morning

• Flippin' Out

• For Now So Long

• Frosty

• Gatemouth Boogie

• Gate's On The Heat

• Here Am I

• Information Blues

• I've Been Mistreated

• Jambalaya (on The Bayou)

• Jumpin' The Blues

• Just Before Dawn

• Justice Blues

• Let The Good Times Roll

• Long Way Home

• Louisiana Zydeco

• Mary Is Fine

• Midnight Hour

• My Time Is Expensive

• Next Time You See Me

• Okie Dokie Stomp

• One More Mile

• Rock Awhile

• Rock My Blues Away

• She Walks Right In

• She Winked Her Eye

• She's Just Old Fashioned

• Strollin' With Bones

• Sunrise Cajun Style

• Swamp Ghost

• The Drifter

• The Peeper

Discography

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• Back to Bogalusa

  Blue Thumb Records

  2001

• American Music, Texas Style

  Blue Thumb Records / Verve

  1999

• Gate Swings

  Verve / Polygram

  1997

• A Long Way Home

  Verve / Polygram

  1996

• Man

  Verve

  1995

• Live 1980

  Charly Records

  1994

• No Looking Back

  Alligator Records

  1992

• Standing My Ground

  Alligator Records

  1989

• Real Life

  Rounder Select / Rounder

  1987

• More Stuff

  Black & Blue

  1985

• One More Mile

  Rounder Select / New Rounder / Rounder

  1982

• Alright Again!

  Rounder

  1981

• Cold Strange

  Black & Blue

  1977

• Bogalusa Boogie Man

  Sunnyside

  1976

• Gate's on the Heat

  Barclay

  1975

• Down South in the Bayou County

  Barclay

  1975

• Black Jack

  Sugar Hill

  1975

• Sings Louis Jordan

  Black & Blue

  1973

• The Blues Ain't Nothin'

  Black And Blue - (import) / Black & Blue

  1972