{"id":408,"date":"2008-10-03T00:01:15","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T04:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/guitar\/?p=408"},"modified":"2011-07-18T23:12:11","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T03:12:11","slug":"gatemouth-has-got-the-real-blues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/guitar\/2008\/10\/03\/gatemouth-has-got-the-real-blues\/","title":{"rendered":"Gatemouth has got the real blues"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--CusAds--><p>I came across the tragic tale of the late great Clarence &#8220;Gatemouth&#8221; Brown today and just had to share it with you all.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>a musician&#8217;s musician who blended genres into what he called &#8220;American music, Texas style.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/guitar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/gatemouth12.jpg\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-417\" style=\"border: 5px solid white;\" title=\"gatemouth12\" src=\"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/guitar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/gatemouth12.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"110\" height=\"110\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It starts out with the great blues man and his life and times.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c354d1e329b235f1862b41000f5a4d18\" data-index=\"3\" style=\"float: left; margin: 10px 10px 10px 0;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-3375789278566919\";\r\n\/* Guitar_inpost_300x250 *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"3631424768\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>Frank Zappa was influenced heavily by this great guitarist, it&#8217;s one of those from the file of &#8220;I did not know that&#8221; . 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.<\/p><!--CusAds-->\n<p>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&#8217;t end there.<\/p>\n<!--CusAds--><p>Hurricane Rita moves into the picture at this point in his story. She now forces his casket, like many others, from the ground. 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