Mel Brown, RIP

20 de Marzo del 2009

Mel Brown 10/07/1939 - 3/20/2009: "Mel Brown fallecio alrededor de las 5 pm de anoche, pero las causas estan aun pendientes. El debia abrir el show de Mavis Staples de esta noche, pero debio ser hospitalizado en el hospital St Mary por problemas respiratorios. Es una gran perdida para el blues, y mas para el blues en Canada". Mel Brown fue uno de los tesoros en el blues con la guitarra y el piano.
Tenia una historia espectacular de grabaciones para sellos como Impulse, Bluesway, Antone's, y en años recientes para Electro-Fi.
Mel habia grabado como sideman de T-Bone Walker, B.B. King, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Albert Collins, Lightnin' Hopkins, John Lee Hooker, Snooky Pryor, Jimmy McGriff, James Cotton, Doug Sahm, Earl Hooker, y Charles Brown (puede una discografia ser mas completa que esto?).
Otro irremplazable grande del blues que nos ha dejado.

Bob Corritore,2009
Pablo Piñeiro, 2009

arch 20, 2009

* RIP Mel Brown 10/7/1939-3/20/2009: This note just in from Eric Thom: "Mel Brown has just passed - around 5pm tonight, but details are still pending.
He was to open for Mavis Staples tonight, but has been in St. Mary’s Hospital in Kitchener fighting to get his breathing back without the use of a machine. This is a huge loss for the blues, and for the blues world in Canada, specifically". Mel Brown was one of the real treasures of blues guitar and piano. He had a long history of spectacular recordings for labels such as Impulse, Bluesway, Antone's, and in recent years, for his home base label of the Electro-Fi records. He also recorded as a sideman for some of the greatest of blues artists, including T-Bone Walker, B.B. King, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Albert Collins, Lightnin' Hopkins, John Lee Hooker, Snooky Pryor, Jimmy McGriff, James Cotton, Doug Sahm, Earl Hooker, and Charles Brown (could a discography be any more fulfilled than that?) Yet another irreplaceable blues great has left us.