Charles Brown - In A Grand Style

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 40:29
Size: 92.7 MB
Styles: Urban blues, West Coast blues
Year: 1989
Art: Front

[4:03] 1. One Never Knows, Does One
[4:20] 2. Stand By You
[4:54] 3. Black Night
[3:09] 4. You Gave Me Everything But Love
[4:19] 5. Give Me A Woman
[3:33] 6. Hard Times
[1:02] 7. Charles Chopin Liszt
[6:45] 8. Sorry Baby
[3:54] 9. Stumbled And Fell In Love
[4:28] 10. Wouldn't It Be Grand

This posthumously released material -- mostly classic and classy love songs -- puts an exclamation point on the career of a true American music legend, a legitimate grand master in more ways than one. It is not, as the back cover states, a "solo piano album." Charles Brown does, in fact, sing on all the cuts save one, but there's no rhythm section or soloist to help. It's simply Charles Brown, all soulful, with light-colored blues, gently swinging but by himself. There are classics like "Black Night," "Stumbled and Fell in Love," the curious "One Never Knows, Does One?" and Little Walter's slightly raucous "Give Me a Woman." Brown's classical background on "Charles' Chopin Liszt" unleashes a cascading, tinkling, arpeggiated side rarely heard. Other intros also showcase this part of Brown's musicianship. Everything on the record, except for "Liszt," is a slow, cigarette-type smoldering blues that is sometimes downhearted, other times hopeful. But the lyrics of Brown's original "Wouldn't It Be Grand" speaks volumes about his hope for our future: "Wouldn't that be grand, if and when we die, we unite together in the sky/Get together, take our stand, glory land/Wouldn't that be grand." ~Michael G. Nastos

In A Grand Style

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