Clarence Gatemouth Brown

[JRL]

Gatemouth Brown passed away, just after he lost his home in Skidell, Miss. He was a unique musical force and a huge repository of American culture.

Another one bites the dust!

//http://www.gatemouth.com/

[laughingwillow]

That's too bad to hear.

We managed to catch his act a few times by the late 90's. Sure was a pleasure.

RIP Clarence. Thanks for the memories.

lw

[CJ]

I heard of him from time to time,never have heard him..or what he had to say.I hope that changes sometime,by recording anyways.

     i`m sorry that this be.

[JRL]

LW, you were lucky to see him. Closest I got was  seeing him on PBS, Austin City Limits probably.

LW, the world would be a better place if we had a few million consumers of music like you, who put their money where their hearts are.

[Bacchant]

my heart dropped as soon as i saw his name. :cry:

such a sad loss of a great musician. rip

[senorsalvia]

--------- :cry:          Never saw him live, but always dug his sunshine-filled style..  He had the 'gift'...  You know; an artist that could flat out have you smiling like a loon and paying rapt attention to ebvery nuance in the vocals....   Aw man, this sucks,    another one down       sal

[JRL]

Yeah man, they be dropping like flies. My friend Omar, an old bluesman himself, told me that he is afraid to answer the phone these days, cause odds are another one has gone.

I wrote this song for Jerome John Garcia but I dust it of at times like these:



                        One Man Gone(Deadicated to Garcia) v.2



Woke up the other morning, didn’t have the blues
Till my baby said honey, I got some real bad news
One more good one has bit the dust
And there’s nobody ‘round that we can trust
One man, one man gone, left us here to sing this song

So I got a bunch of speakers from out of my shed
Didn’t give a damn what my neighbors said
Hooked ‘em all up, turned it up to eleven
So they would know who was knocking on the doors of heaven
One man, one man gone, left us here to sing this song

We went down to the park later that night
Came from miles around, from left and right
Dance and drum, sing and shout
Till the heat came round and threw us out
One man, one man gone, left us here to sing this song

A dark star crashes on the golden road
I still don’t know, but I been told
On the other hand I’m here to say
Don’t let the music stop, and we won’t fade away
One man, one man gone, left us here to sing this song


                          C 1995,2005 by Joe Lev