I came across the tragic tale of the late great Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown today and just had to share it with you all.

a musician’s musician who blended genres into what he called “American music, Texas style.”

It starts out with the great blues man and his life and times.

Frank Zappa was influenced heavily by this great guitarist, it’s one of those from the file of “I did not know that” . Then came Katrina that wiped out his beloved home in Slidell, La., on the shore of Lake Pontchartrain a suburb of New Orleans, and also took his beloved 1977 black Cadillac.

He then moves back to Orange county,his home state of Texas, awaiting for his New Orleans to right itself. Unfortunately while there he dies just 2 weeks later of lung cancer. He was later buried in an all-black cemetery located on the west side of the Sabine River called Hollywood Community Cemetery, but the story doesn’t end there.

Hurricane Rita moves into the picture at this point in his story. She now forces his casket, like many others, from the ground. The whereabouts of his remains are unsure.