Album
The Original Peacock Recordings
1983 · Blues
The Original Peacock Recordings is a Blues album by Clarence Gatemouth Brown, originally released in 1983. On Gatefold: 8 pressings tracked.
About
Only 12 songs long, this collection remains the best place to begin appreciating why so many young Texas blues guitarists fell in love with Gatemouth Brown's style (until MCA decides to compile the ultimate Brown package, anyway). Listen to the way his blazing axe darts and weaves through trombonist Pluma Davis' jazzy horn chart on 1954's "Okie Dokie Stomp," and/or the stratospheric licks drenching "Dirty Work at the Crossroads." Brown proves that a violin can adapt marvelously to the blues (in the right hands, anyway) on "Just Before Dawn," and blows a little atmospheric harp on "Gate's Salty Blues.".
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Sound DNA
- Blues
Notes from the original pressing. Later editions may differ.
Brown/Amber vinyl apparent if held up to light.
A1, B6 (Peacock 1633)
A2 (Peacock 1576)
A3 (Peacock 1662)
A4, B2 (previously unissued)
A5 (Peacock 1607)
A6 (Peacock 1617)
B1, B5 (Peacock 1637)
B3 (Peacock 1653)
B4 (Peacock 1692)
A2: Houston, 1952
A5, A6: Houston, 1953
A1, B2, B6, A4, B1, B5 Houston, 1954
B3, A3: Houston, July 3, 1956
B4: Houston, September, 1959
Original recordings produced by Peacock Records, Houston, Texas
Courtesy of MCA Records, Inc.
Mastered at Masterdisk, New York
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Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Clarence "Gatemouth" BrownVOCALS, GUITAR, VIOLIN, HARMONICA GUITAR, VOCALS HARMONICA
- Allen ClarkBARITONE GUITAR BARITONE SAXOPHONE
- Bill HarveyTENOR SAXOPHONE
- Carl LottBASS
- Carl OwensPIANO
- Duke BarkerDRUMS
- Emile RussellDRUMS
- Fred FordBARITONE GUITAR BARITONE SAXOPHONE
- Henry BoozierTRUMPET
- Jimmy McCracklinPIANO
- Joe ToussaintBASS
- Johnny ParkerALTO SAXOPHONE
- Johnny ParkerALTO SAXOPHONE BASS
- Jual CurtisDRUMS
- Nathaniel DouglasGUITAR
- Paul MondayPIANO
- Pluma DavisTROMBONE
- Roy JohnsonBASS
8 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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