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Charles Brown

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Biography

How many blues artists remained at the absolute top of their game after more than a half-century of performing? One immediately leaps to mind: Charles Brown. His incredible piano skills and laid-back vocal delivery remained every bit as mesmerizing at the end of his life as they were way back in 1945, when his groundbreaking waxing of "Drifting Blues" with guitarist Johnny Moore's Three Blazers invented an entirely new blues genre for sophisticated postwar revelers: an ultra-mellow, jazz-inflected sound perfect for sipping a late-night libation in some hip after-hours joint. Brown's smooth trio format was tremendously influential to a host of high-profile disciples -- Ray Charles, Amos Milburn, and Floyd Dixon, for starters.

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Top Tracks

Total plays on Last.fm over the last 6 months
  1. Please Come Home For Christmas - (2:49)  -  11,165 plays
  2. Merry Christmas Baby - (2:44)  -  4,542 plays
  3. Merry Christmas, Baby - (2:54)  -  3,809 plays
  4. Driftin' Blues - (4:00)  -  2,399 plays
  5. Black Night - (2:51)  -  2,033 plays
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