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| 1. | I Feel Alright Again
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| 2. | I Wonder
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| 3. | Gate Walks To Board
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| 4. | Sunrise Cajun Style
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| 5. | Song For Rene
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| 6. | Six Levels Below Plant Life
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| 7. | Frosty
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| 8. | One More Mile
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| 9. | Pressure Cooker
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| 10. | Catfish
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| 11. | Up Jumped The Devil
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Recorded at the Maple Leaf in New Orleans, February 4, 1984
In May 1924, when Clarence Brown was just three weeks old, he moved with his family from his birthplace of Vinton, Louisiana across the Sabine River to Orange, Texas, the town in which he was later develop his considerable instrumental skills under the tutelage of his father, himself a highly accomplished entertainer.
During his performing career, Brown regularly retraced the route of his migration in musical terms, crisscrossing the Sabine to piece together a repertoire which ignores the usual stylistic boundaries and defies categorization. A life spent playing "rue American music" is how Gate himself described a career in which Texas blues rubbed shoulders with New Orleans R&B and where the south Louisiana Cajuns have intermingled with the hard riffing horns of the Lone Star state.
Other ingredients which Brown added to his musical gumbo over the years included the bluegrass and string-band styles learned early on from his dad and the more mainstream country sounds of his collaborations with Hee Haw favorite Roy Clark.
The New Orleans club performance featured on this video highlights many facets of Gate's work and demonstrates his abilities both as the bluesiest fiddle player on the block and as a sharp-toned guitar master from the T-Bone Walker school. His percussive skin-on-guitar strings approach, together with the capo he clamps across the neck of his leather coated Gibson Firebird, speaks volumes about the influence Brown exercised over the younger Texan Albert Collins and perhaps explains why the seemingly made to measure instrumental "Frosty" is so easily accommodated here. Among the others who have paid homage to Gate are such important names as Guitar Slim, Otis Rush and Lonnie Brooks.
Brown got his first big break when he famously and exuberantly enraptured a crowd of T-Bone adherents after the great man was temporarily taken sick on stage in Houston. Here, filmed nearly forty years later, Brown is clearly still adept at charming audiences. Indeed, with tours of Africa, Asia and South America under his belt, Gate became something of a musical ambassador for the U.S. Certainly, there are few other performers who's work is so demonstrably and so comprehensively American. |
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