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charles brown lp- take a look (i found one of these today)-- you have Charles Brown in his 50s, look at his hair, is that a toupee? look at his suit. IS HE PLAYING A FENDER RHODES?!?
the label has 13 or so releases, its odd a few of them have been retitled "pioneers of rhythm and blues" and renmubered and released as amazon mp3-only song and/or albuim downloads....copyright 2008 Johnny Otis, with new covers with artwork painted by Johnny himself. I really would be interested to know if these were originally download only or if physical copies exist.
i subtitled this thread 'nothing comes close'- what does chewy mean by that. what im talking about is that i dont know of another label that so accurately displays what the r&b greats of the early 50s were up to in the early 70s. all the reviews talk about "past their prime" "bland 70s style rhythm sect", but this opposite is true. these recordings are very interesting, charles brown re-doing merry christmas baby in the 70s, with electric bass, shuggie otis on guitar...johnny otis on drums and vibes...and charles brown sounds fantastic