a bluesman was called home

[Kbrick]

A good man passed away this past weekend.
Clarence Gatemouth Brown, a Blues legend.
The New York Times said, http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/12/arts/music/12brown.html
His bio is almost as good as the music, 'Alligator eating Dog ' is on the cd player right now.
Godspeed.

[eddie]

Got to see him live in Lexington,Ky., small place with maybe seventy five people. Great show, even got to say hello and get an autograph. I feel lucky I got to see him before he passed, unlike John Lee. RIP Gatemouth

[SCDorman]

What an incredibly talented guy. I saw him many years ago in a little bar in Rock Island. Electric guitar, fiddle, mandolin, banjo, he could play 'em all, very well. He was playing a slow tune and there was some chatter going on in the back. He stopped and said 'Hey, y'all in the back, shut up so these polite folk can hear. I'll play that rowdy stuff later.'

I remember hearing 'Talking Timbuktu' by Ali Farka-Toure and Ry Cooder. There's this song 'Ai Du' which has the most other-worldly violin I've ever heard. It was Gate.

He was a treasure.

[BradfordBenn]

Just think about how great the Jam band up there must be. :dance

But Dang

[ian408]

Indeed. That must be a hard ticket to get. The many great performers
who've passed over the year.

John Lee Hooker appears on Zucchero & Co. performing a tune called
"I Lay Down". Released a month or two ago, I'd guess it was one of his
last performances. Wonderful tune.

Ian