Consumer Guide Album

Clarence Gatemouth Brown: Blackjack [Music Is Medicine, 1977]
The black musician with the unforgettable name sings like the bluesman he's thought to be, but though he plays some blues, too, more often he picks like a Nashville cat. Culturally, this is gratifying. Musically, though, it's a pleasant but by no means groundbreaking folkie jam with light jazz tendencies. Get ridda that flute, Gatemouth. B-