Mel Brown

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Chicken Fat 00:00 Tools
Blues For We 00:00 Tools
Greasy Spoon 00:00 Tools
Son Of A Preacher Man 00:00 Tools
Home James 00:00 Tools
Hobo Flats 00:00 Tools
Slalom 00:00 Tools
Shanty 00:00 Tools
Sad But True 00:00 Tools
I'm Goin' To Jackson 00:00 Tools
Blues For The Big Bob 00:00 Tools
Swamp Fever 00:00 Tools
Blues On The Green 00:00 Tools
Get Out Of My Life Woman 00:00 Tools
Woman Wanted 00:00 Tools
Ode To Billie Joe 00:00 Tools
I Ain't Drunk 00:00 Tools
Goin' Down Slow 00:00 Tools
African Sweets 00:00 Tools
Indian Giver 00:00 Tools
Blues After Hours 00:00 Tools
Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da 00:00 Tools
Stop 00:00 Tools
Chunk A Funk 00:00 Tools
Freaky Zeke 00:00 Tools
Stranger On The Shore 00:00 Tools
W-2 Withholding 00:00 Tools
Set Me Free 00:00 Tools
Twist And Shout 00:00 Tools
Miss Ann 00:00 Tools
Love, Lost and Found 00:00 Tools
Slow Moan 00:00 Tools
Good Stuff 00:00 Tools
Time For A Change 00:00 Tools
You Were Wrong, Pretty Baby 00:00 Tools
Pattern B 00:00 Tools
My Baby Wants to Boogie 00:00 Tools
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da 00:00 Tools
Red Cross Store 00:00 Tools
Hoochie Coochie Man 00:00 Tools
Seven Forty-Seven (Airport Blues) 00:00 Tools
Come Back Baby 00:00 Tools
Big Foot Country Girl 00:00 Tools
I Believe To My Soul 00:00 Tools
Need Love 00:00 Tools
Do Your Thing 00:00 Tools
Eighteen Pounds of Unclean Chitlins 00:00 Tools
Blues in the Alley 00:00 Tools
Red Wine And Moonshine 00:00 Tools
Luv Potion 00:00 Tools
Little Girl from Maine 00:00 Tools
Summer Magic 00:00 Tools
I Aint Drunk 00:00 Tools
Blues for me 00:00 Tools
Feel like jumping 00:00 Tools
I Want To Hold Onto You Baby 00:00 Tools
Drifting Blues 00:00 Tools
Under the Counter Blues 00:00 Tools
Love That Girl 00:00 Tools
Cheap at Half the Price 00:00 Tools
I'm In The Mood 00:00 Tools
Home Made 00:00 Tools
Love Lost And Found 00:00 Tools
Home Folks 00:00 Tools
I Wouldn't Treat A Dog 00:00 Tools
Good Stuff ['Ya Mama'] 00:00 Tools
Stinging Bea 00:00 Tools
I'd Rather Suck My Thumb 00:00 Tools
Lord Have Mercy 00:00 Tools
Little Girl, Don't You Know 00:00 Tools
Miss. Ann 00:00 Tools
Twist & Shout 00:00 Tools
First Light 00:00 Tools
Eighteen pounds of unclean chitlings 00:00 Tools
Girl Talk 00:00 Tools
Kenny’s Castaways (Git - it) 00:00 Tools
Can I Talk To You? 00:00 Tools
Smile 00:00 Tools
Goin Down Slow 00:00 Tools
Ruby Mae 00:00 Tools
Youre The One 00:00 Tools
Snap 00:00 Tools
Lenox Lounge (Git - it) 00:00 Tools
Take Your Time 00:00 Tools
Ricktor Scale 00:00 Tools
Indian Giver ['Lunchroom Chatter'] 00:00 Tools
Make Love To Your Mind 00:00 Tools
Chunk-a-Funk 00:00 Tools
18 Pounds of Unclean Chitlings Pt2 00:00 Tools
Brown Baggin' 00:00 Tools
18 Pounds of Unclean Chitlings Pt1 00:00 Tools
Cafe Wha (Git - it) 00:00 Tools
Scorpio 00:00 Tools
Hey Joe 00:00 Tools
My Baby Wants To Boogie (w Snooky Pryor) 00:00 Tools
You got me hummin' 00:00 Tools
Dandyish 00:00 Tools
Master Blaster 00:00 Tools
Dixie 00:00 Tools
Blues - A Beautiful Thing 00:00 Tools
Hold On To You Baby 00:00 Tools
Troubles 00:00 Tools
Sundown 00:00 Tools
Karansa's Boogie 00:00 Tools
I Wanna See My Baby 00:00 Tools
Church 00:00 Tools
Blues In The Alley (w Miss Angel) 00:00 Tools
Woke Up This Morning 00:00 Tools
Im In The Mood 00:00 Tools
Little Girl From Maine (w Sam Myers) 00:00 Tools
Red Wine And Moonshine (w Enrico Crivellaro) 00:00 Tools
Prelude To A Kiss 00:00 Tools
Honeybee 00:00 Tools
One For Jimmy Mak 00:00 Tools
Yardbird Suite 00:00 Tools
3 00:00 Tools
Feel Like Jumping (w Snooky Pryor) 00:00 Tools
Intro 00:00 Tools
Get Out Of My Life, Woman 00:00 Tools
Billie Jean 00:00 Tools
time for a change - good stuff 00:00 Tools
Now's Not The Time 00:00 Tools
Soulful Drums 00:00 Tools
JD's Groove 00:00 Tools
Sunshine Alley 00:00 Tools
I'm Going to Jackson 00:00 Tools
I'll Play The Blues For You 00:00 Tools
May Song 00:00 Tools
Silverplated Song 00:00 Tools
Good Friday 00:00 Tools
Blues For GB 00:00 Tools
Spoonful 00:00 Tools
You're The One 00:00 Tools
The Sky Is Crying 00:00 Tools
Gone With The Wind 00:00 Tools
Anacrusis 00:00 Tools
The Message 00:00 Tools
Just Squeeze Me 00:00 Tools
I Wish 00:00 Tools
Blues for Tracy 00:00 Tools
Fannie Mae 00:00 Tools
Ticondeep 00:00 Tools
Actor Of Music 00:00 Tools
I Want To Hold Onto You, Baby 00:00 Tools
Venus 00:00 Tools
Word Up 00:00 Tools
Mighty Burner 00:00 Tools
You Are So Beautiful 00:00 Tools
01-Mel Brown-Time For A Change 00:00 Tools
03-Mel Brown-747 Airport Blues 00:00 Tools
06-Mel Brown-Cheap At Half Price 00:00 Tools
Time For A Change/Good Stuff 00:00 Tools
Turn On Your Love Light 00:00 Tools
Milestones 00:00 Tools
chicken fat (buttshakers vol 4) 00:00 Tools
The Peeper 00:00 Tools
Lord, Have Mercy 00:00 Tools
07-Mel Brown-Home Made 00:00 Tools
02-Mel Brown-Good Stuff 00:00 Tools
05-Mel Brown-Drifting Blues 00:00 Tools
04-Mel Brown-Luv Potion 00:00 Tools
Back at the Chicken Shack 00:00 Tools
W-2 Witholding 00:00 Tools
What's Going On 00:00 Tools
Don't Plan No Party This Christmas 00:00 Tools
Oldest Son 00:00 Tools
Waltz For Theo 00:00 Tools
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Mel Brown was born on October 7, 1939 in Jackson, Mississippi. He backed Bobby Blue Bland on guitar for more than ten years. He recorded most of his albums for the Impulse, which is primarily known for jazz. His music is a blend of soul and funk as well as the blues. Artist Biography Below by Jason Ankeny Best known for his decade-plus stint in support of Bobby "Blue" Bland, Mel Brown channeled elements of soul, funk, and jazz to create one of the most distinctive guitar styles in contemporary blues. Born October 7, 1939, in Jackson, MS, Brown received his first guitar at the age of 14 while battling meningitis, spending hours each day studying the music of idols like B.B. King and T-Bone Walker from his sickbed. His father, John Henry "Bubba" Brown, a gifted amateur guitarist who often backed Delta legend Tommy Johnson, was another seminal influence. After recovering from his illness, Brown joined the Duke Juniors, a teenaged spinoff of the popular local society band the Duke Huddleston Orchestra. Word of his prodigious abilities spread quickly throughout the region, and at 15, he played a series of gigs backing the great Sonny Boy Williamson. After a brief stint in Los Angeles, Brown returned to Jackson in 1955, honing his skills under Huddleston before permanently settling in L.A. three years later. After a six-month stretch with West Coast R&B singer Jimmy Beasley, Brown spent two years backing R&B great Johnny Otis. In late 1960, he toured with the Olympics, followed by a two-year tour of duty with the great Etta James. Most significantly, while touring with James he swapped his Les Paul for a hollow-bodied Gibson ES-175, later crediting the instrument for the warm, rich tone that set him apart from rival guitarists. By 1963 the grind of touring forced Brown off the road. He returned to L.A. and resumed his collaboration with Otis, enjoying an extended residency at the Club Sands. He also launched a session career, playing on records by everyone from Bobby Darin to Bill Cosby as well as T-Bone Walker's Funky Town LP. His contributions so impressed ABC/Impulse! producer Bob Thiele that he invited Brown to cut his own album for the label: 1967's Chicken Fat, a wonderfully greasy blues-funk outing pairing Brown with fellow guitarist Herb Ellis, remains a cult classic. A series of impressive LPs including The Wizard, I'd Rather Suck My Thumb, and Big Foot Country Gal followed in quick succession before Brown joined Bland in 1971, appearing on the singer's classic California Album two years later. During his stint with Bland, the guitarist also moonlighted behind blues legends John Lee Hooker, Lightnin' Hopkins, and Roy Brown, and in 1976 he relocated to Nashville, where he maintained an even busier session schedule than in Los Angeles. Upon resuming his collaboration with Bland, Brown made the decision to temporarily abandon guitar in favor of the piano. He remained with the singer until 1982, putting his performing career on hiatus and moving to remote northeast Mississippi in an attempt to escape the music business. Brown resurfaced in 1983 as a member of the house band at the legendary Austin, TX, blues joint Antone's. In the years to follow, he backed everyone from Buddy Guy to Stevie Ray Vaughan to Clifton Chenier. In 1986, he accepted Albert Collins' offer to join his band the Icebreakers, recording the acclaimed LP Cold Snap before returning to Antone's. In 1989, he resumed his solo career with If It's All Night, It's All Right, released on the club's eponymous label. A few months later Brown headlined the Kitchener, Ontario, venue the Pop-the-Gator Club, finding the experience so much to his liking that he relocated to Canada in early 1990. There he formed a new band, the Homewreckers, and steadily toured the southern Ontario nightclub circuit, finally reappearing on wax in 1998 as a guest on Snooky Pryor's Can't Stop Blowin'. Brown's Electro-Fi label debut, Neck Bones & Caviar, followed a year later, winning the W.C. Handy Award for Blues Comeback of the Year. With 2000's co-headlined Double Shot!, he and Pryor earned a W.C. Handy nomination for Traditional Blues Album of the Year. The concert disc Homewreckin' Done Live followed a year later. After another five-year layoff from recording, Brown issued Blues: A Beautiful Thing in early 2006. Source: AllMusic Biography - Mel Brown You can also see Mel Brown & the Homewreckers and / or Mel Brown And The Homewreckers on Last.fm. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.