# Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [October 17, 2006, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clarence-gatemouth-brown/376723 "2006-10-17T01:43:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2006, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clarence-gatemouth-brown/376723/1 "2006-10-17T01:43:54Z")

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Just saw him for the first time on a Canned Heat Live At Montreux DVD, and I am ENCHANTED!!!

Pleas tell me more. and link me to everything Gatemouth!

Thanks

Q

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**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2006, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clarence-gatemouth-brown/376723/2 "2006-10-17T02:02:01Z")

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> **[Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gatemouth_Brown)**
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> Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown (April 18, 1924 – September 10, 2005) was an American singer and multi-instrumentalist from Louisiana. He won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album in 1983 for his album, Alright Again!.
> Brown was born in Vinton, Louisiana, and raised near Orange, Texas. His father was a railroad worker and local musician who taught him several musical instruments, including fiddle by age 5; as well as piano and guitar. He had at least one brother.
> Brown was performing guita...

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**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2006, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/clarence-gatemouth-brown/376723/3 "2006-10-17T02:54:11Z")

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I like his fiddle playing – does anyone else even try to **do** blues on a fiddle? Or maybe it’s a violin, I dunno. I just know I like it.

I saw him once in a small club in Seattle, the Firehouse, I think it was. I had to leave before he started his second set, at midnight. That’s the last time I take one of my kids with me. “Ma! I gotta work tomorrow!” Phlbffft.