NATURE BOY BROWN R&B 78 STRICTLY GONE / HOUSE PARTY GROOVE US UNITED U 121 E-
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TWO GREAT SIDES ON THIS JUMPING R&B 78 FROM NATURE BOY BROWN AND HIS BLUES RAMBLERS ON AN ORIGINAL US UNITED PRESSING
STRICTLY GONE
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b/w HOUSE PARTY GROOVE
(a more laid-back side)
John T. "Nature Boy" Brown (1918-1969) was a tenor sax player in the blues idiom who supplemented his robust blowing with rather rough-hewn singing. In his liner notes for the Brown United reissues on Delmark, Jim O'Neal remarked that he "was a bluesman. By jazz standards, he was not a great instrumentalist. His lack of sophistication, subtlety, and tonal variations prevented him from moving into more 'progressive' circles." Brown first performed as a member of the Rabbit Foot Minstrels in the South before moving to Chicago in the early 1940s. He first appears in the Board minutes of Musicians Union Local 208 on December 21, 1944, when his "indefinite" contract with the Boogie Woogie Inn was accepted and filed. When recording by the majors resumed in 1945, Brown began taking part in sessions for RCA Victor behind such artists as Roosevelt Sykes, Eddie Boyd, and Washboard Sam. He first recorded under his own name for Mayo Williams' Harlem label in 1949 (some of these items were dealt to Williams' former employer, Decca). Brown cut a session for Premium that saw no releases, but Simpkins did not forget him and he was one of the first signings for the United label. The July session was the first of two.
United featured him on the label as "'Nature Boy' Brown and his Blues Ramblers." The lineup on Brown's part of the session has been subject to dispute, but besides Little Brother Montgomery on piano (Roosevelt Sykes can be heard providing "encouragement and zest," as the Delmark reissue CD puts it), Ransom Knowling doing some prominent slap-bass work, and Jump Jackson on drums, it appears to include King Kolax on trumpet. King K had toured with Brown from January through March of 1951 and was probably with Brown's group until after this session.
GREAT STUFF !
US UNITED U-121 10" 78rpm SHELLAC
CONDITION V+/E- SOME WEAR BUT PLAYS GREATStrictly Gone matrix #1053 recorded Chicago 10/1/1952 (Brown) House Party Groove matrix #1056 recorded Chicago 10/1/1952 (Call) PICK UP THIS HARD TO FIND JUMPING R&B 78
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