Time: 54:14
Size: 124.2 MB
Styles: Acoustic blues
Year: 2008
Art: Front
[4:32] 1. Henry Brown Blues
[6:08] 2. Got It & Cain't Quit It
[2:28] 3. Bottled In Bond
[5:44] 4. Blues For Charlie O'Brien
[3:54] 5. Deep Morgan Is Delmar Now
[2:51] 6. Henry Brown Boogie
[2:57] 7. O'fallon Blues
[5:29] 8. My Blues Is In The Bottle
[2:45] 9. Papa Slick Head
[4:12] 10. Handyman Blues
[4:25] 11. Scufflin' Boogie
[8:44] 12. Henry Brown's Talking Blues
Originally recorded by Paul Oliver in 1960 and issued on the 77 Label and reissued on Southland. The last track, not on the LP, is nearly nine minutes of Brown's off-the-cuff reminiscing on the St. Louis scene of his youth underpinned by some superb playing. Notes are identical to the LP with an additional photo of Brown playing at Pinkey Boxx's Beauty Parlor in St. Louis. ~Jeff H.
Henry Brown learned to play the piano from the "professors" of the notorious Deep Morgan section of St. Louis. One of them went by the name of "Blackmouth," another was named Joe (or Tom) Cross. As Brown remembered him, "he was a real old time blues player and he’d stomp 'em down to the bricks." "Deep Morgan Blues" was one of his signature pieces. Brown worked clubs such as the Blue Flame Club, the 9-0-5 Club, Jim's Place and Katy Red's, from the twenties into the 30's. He recorded for Brunswick with Ike Rogers and Mary Johnson in 1929 and cut ten sides for Paramount in '29 under his own name with various accompanists. He served in the army in the early 40's, then formed his own quartet to work occasional local gigs in St. Louis area from the 50's, and worked the Becky Thatcher riverboat in 1965. In addition to his pre-war recordings, he was recorded by Paul Oliver in 1960, by Sam Charters with Edith Johnson in 1961 an cut a few tracks for 1965 for Storyville and Adelphi in 1969.
Henry Brown learned to play the piano from the "professors" of the notorious Deep Morgan section of St. Louis. One of them went by the name of "Blackmouth," another was named Joe (or Tom) Cross. As Brown remembered him, "he was a real old time blues player and he’d stomp 'em down to the bricks." "Deep Morgan Blues" was one of his signature pieces. Brown worked clubs such as the Blue Flame Club, the 9-0-5 Club, Jim's Place and Katy Red's, from the twenties into the 30's. He recorded for Brunswick with Ike Rogers and Mary Johnson in 1929 and cut ten sides for Paramount in '29 under his own name with various accompanists. He served in the army in the early 40's, then formed his own quartet to work occasional local gigs in St. Louis area from the 50's, and worked the Becky Thatcher riverboat in 1965. In addition to his pre-war recordings, he was recorded by Paul Oliver in 1960, by Sam Charters with Edith Johnson in 1961 an cut a few tracks for 1965 for Storyville and Adelphi in 1969.
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