ARTHUR BROWN WITH JIMMY CARL BLACK
''BROWN, BLACK & BLUE''
1988
35:36
1 Fever
Eddie Cooley / John Davenport 3:10
2 Monkey Walk
Arthur Brown 3:46
3 Unchain My Heart
Teddy Powell 3:14
4 Got My Mojo Working
Preston Foster 5:12
5 Smokestack Lightnin'
Howlin' Wolf 4:12
6 Hound Dog
Jerry Leiber / Mike Stoller 2:14
7 Help Me
Sonny Boy Williamson II 3:27
8 The Right Time
Arthur Brown / Ozzie Cadena / Lew Herman 3:55
9 Stand by Me
Ben E. King / Mike Leiber / Mike Stoller 3:55
10 The Lord Is My Friend
P.D. Scots Pipe Band 2:31
Jimmy Carl Black/Drums
Arthur Brown/Vocals
Bob Corbet/Saxophone
Phillip Fajardo/Percussion
Michael Francis/Saxophone
Gil Hartman/Guitar
Bruce Hughes/Bass
Demethea McVay/Vocals (Background)
Frank Meyer/Bass
Gary Primich/Guitar, Harmonica
John Viehweg/Guitar
REVIEW
by William Ruhlmann
Teaming up with ex-Mothers of Invention drummer Jimmy Carl Black (who gets second billing) and a team of Austin bar band veterans, Arthur Brown turns out a set of R&B standards such as "Fever" and "Smokestack Lightnin'." For the most part, Brown is content to play the role of straightforward blues shouter, only letting his wilder persona out on an extended rap during "Got My Mojo Working," an appropriately extreme version of "Hound Dog," on which he takes even more lyrical liberties than Elvis Presley did, and "The Lord Is My Friend," ain which the self-proclaimed "god of hell fire" gets religion and learns to preach. None of these versions will ever make you forget the classic ones by progenitors like Muddy Waters or Howlin' Wolf, although they are competently done. This is the kind of set that is best heard in a bar with a cold one in hand, but that didn't ever need to be made into an album.
''BROWN, BLACK & BLUE''
1988
35:36
1 Fever
Eddie Cooley / John Davenport 3:10
2 Monkey Walk
Arthur Brown 3:46
3 Unchain My Heart
Teddy Powell 3:14
4 Got My Mojo Working
Preston Foster 5:12
5 Smokestack Lightnin'
Howlin' Wolf 4:12
6 Hound Dog
Jerry Leiber / Mike Stoller 2:14
7 Help Me
Sonny Boy Williamson II 3:27
8 The Right Time
Arthur Brown / Ozzie Cadena / Lew Herman 3:55
9 Stand by Me
Ben E. King / Mike Leiber / Mike Stoller 3:55
10 The Lord Is My Friend
P.D. Scots Pipe Band 2:31
Jimmy Carl Black/Drums
Arthur Brown/Vocals
Bob Corbet/Saxophone
Phillip Fajardo/Percussion
Michael Francis/Saxophone
Gil Hartman/Guitar
Bruce Hughes/Bass
Demethea McVay/Vocals (Background)
Frank Meyer/Bass
Gary Primich/Guitar, Harmonica
John Viehweg/Guitar
REVIEW
by William Ruhlmann
Teaming up with ex-Mothers of Invention drummer Jimmy Carl Black (who gets second billing) and a team of Austin bar band veterans, Arthur Brown turns out a set of R&B standards such as "Fever" and "Smokestack Lightnin'." For the most part, Brown is content to play the role of straightforward blues shouter, only letting his wilder persona out on an extended rap during "Got My Mojo Working," an appropriately extreme version of "Hound Dog," on which he takes even more lyrical liberties than Elvis Presley did, and "The Lord Is My Friend," ain which the self-proclaimed "god of hell fire" gets religion and learns to preach. None of these versions will ever make you forget the classic ones by progenitors like Muddy Waters or Howlin' Wolf, although they are competently done. This is the kind of set that is best heard in a bar with a cold one in hand, but that didn't ever need to be made into an album.
