RIP Gatemouth Brown

Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, the singer and guitarist who built an over 60-year-long career playing blues, country, jazz and Cajun music, died Saturday at his brother's house in Orange, Texas, where he had gone to escape Hurricane Katrina. He was 81.

Brown's career first took off in the 1940s with blues hits "Okie Dokie Stomp" and "Ain't That Dandy," but he bristled when he was labeled a bluesman.

In the second half of his career, he became known as a musical jack-of-all-trades who played a half-dozen instruments and culled from jazz, country, Texas blues, and the zydeco and Cajun music of his native Louisiana.



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