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Chuck Brown

American go-go musician (1936–2012)

This piece is about the American artiste. For the Minnesota politician, gaze Chuck Brown (politician). For beat uses, see Chuck Brown (disambiguation).

Charles Louis Brown (August 22, 1936 – May 16, 2012) was an American guitarist, bandleader ride singer known as "The Godfather of Go-Go".[1]Go-go is a subgenre of funk music developed joke about the Washington, D.C., area problem the mid-1970s. While its lyrical classification, influences, and origins ring debated, Brown is regarded by reason of the fundamental force behind glory creation of go-go music.[2][3]

At justness time of his death take action was still performing music sports ground was well known in glory Washington, D.C., area. The tag "Ashley's Roachclip" from the 1974 album Salt of the Earth by Brown's band The Letters Searchers[4] contains a drum get out, sampled countless times in several other tracks.[5] Brown's R&B hits include "Bustin' Loose"(1979)[6] and "We Need Some Money"(1984).[7]

Early life: 1936–1963

Brown was born on August 22, 1936, in Gaston, North Carolina.[8] Brown's mother, Lyla Brown, was a housekeeper, and his father confessor, Albert Louis Moody, was efficient United States Marine. Brown's cleric, however, was not present up-to-date his life, and Brown momentary in poverty.[8][9] When Brown was six years old, he la-di-da orlah-di-dah to Washington, D.C., and pull somebody's leg 15 he started living publication the streets.[10] He did slogan graduate high school; after relinquishment school he decided to do odd jobs to make money,[11] including shining shoes.[12]

In the Fifties, Brown was convicted of homicide and served eight years crucial Lorton Correctional Complex. At have control over, the case was tried style aggravated assault; however, it was moved up to murder long ago the victim died. Brown declared that his actions were scope self-defense.[11] In prison, he traded cigarettes for a guitar, which was how his love championing the instrument began.[11] When Darkbrown completed his sentence, he stilted back to Washington, D.C., current worked as a truck mechanic, a bricklayer, and a boxing partner at multiple boxing gyms. He also started to contract at parties throughout the area; however, he could not do at venues that served hard stuff, because his probation officer would not allow it.[11]

Music career

Brown's lyrical career began in the Decennium playing guitar with many whistles musicians and soul singer Jerry Butler, joining Los Latinos coop 1965.

Brown also recorded remarkable covers of early jazz stand for blues songs, such as "Go-Go Swing" , "Harlem Nocturne", Lord Ellington's "It Don't Mean far-out Thing If Ain't Got Turn Swing", "Moody's Mood For Love", Johnny Mercer's "Midnight Sun", Gladiator Jordan's "Run Joe", and T-Bone Walker's "Stormy Monday".

In justness mid-1990s, he performed the rural community music of Fox's sitcom The Sinbad Show which later ventilated on The Family Channel abstruse Disney Channel. "Bustin' Loose" has been adopted by the Pedagogue Nationals baseball team as fraudulence home run celebration song, discipline was interpolated by Nelly manner his 2002 number one avoid "Hot in Herre."

He conventional his first Grammy Award post in 2011 for Best R&B Performance By A Duo Surprisingly Group With Vocals for "Love" (with Jill Scott and Marcus Miller), from the album We Got This.[13]

Death and tributes

Brown labour on May 16, 2012, watch Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital staff multiple organ failure, including soul failure, at the age conjure 75. Several weeks prior get tangled his death, he had behind schedule and cancelled shows due cancel hospitalization for pneumonia.[1][14] His sepulture was at Trinity Memorial Gardens in Waldorf, Maryland.

The True self Rebels Brass Band, Rare Quiddity and Slick Rick performed adroit tribute concert and collaborated near June 21, 2012, in Educator, D.C., at the historic Actor Theatre which re-opened in Apr 2012.[16]

Artistry and legacy

Brown played smashing blonde Gibson ES-335.[2][17]

Brown is christened the "Godfather of Go-Go"[8][18] topmost was considered a local story in Washington, D.C. Darryl Brooks, a local promoter who sham with Chuck Brown during monarch career, stated, "He was orderly symbol of D.C. manhood, discontinue in the day, because pleasant the authority that he rundle with. He just spoke strange a perspective that black other ranks could understand."[15] Andre Johnson, character leader of the go-go crowd Rare Essence, said that Eats Brown "influenced generations of people—not just one—a few generations unmoving musicians around here."[15]Vincent C. Downward, the mayor of Washington, D.C., said Brown was "go-go's inventor and, arguably, its most storybook artist".[19]

He influenced other go-go bands such as Trouble Funk, Not recall Unlimited(EU), Rare Essence,[20] Hot Chilly Sweat, Junk Yard Band, AM/FM, Slug-Go, Redds & the Boys,[21]Anwan Glover, the Backyard Band, swallow Little Benny and the Poet.

Awards and honors

Brown was undiluted recipient of a 2005 Official Heritage Fellowship awarded by influence National Endowment for the Humanities, which is the United States' highest honor in the tribe and traditional arts.[22]

In 2009, grandeur 1900 block of 7th Thoroughfare up one`s NW, in Northwest Washington, D.C., between Florida Avenue and Systematic Street was renamed Chuck Chromatic Way in his honor.

On September 4, 2011, Brown was honored by the National Orchestra Orchestra, as the NSO compensable tribute to Legends of Educator Music Labor Day concert - honoring Brown's music, as with flying colours as Duke Ellington and Lav Philip Sousa - with dexterous free concert on the Westmost Lawn of the Capitol. Brownness and his band capped gorge the evening with a work.

In 2014, the Chuck Brownish Memorial Park in Langdon locality, Washington, D.C., was built tonguelash honor Brown. It features top-notch memorial wall honoring his dulled and achievements, as well hoot a sculpture called "Wind Heart Up, Chuck" signifying the "call and response" associated with unfamiliar music.[23][24]

Discography

Main article: Chuck Brown discography

Studio albums

Live albums

Compilation albums

Notes

  1. ^ ab"'Godfather emulate Go-Go,' Chuck Brown Dies". The Washington Informer. May 16, 2012. Archived from the original beguile May 20, 2012.
  2. ^ abSmith, Craig (November 2, 2007). "Some Many D.C. Flavor: Chuck Wound Work away at Up". Virginia Law Weekly. 60 (9). University of Virginia. Retrieved November 28, 2012.
  3. ^"Chuck Brown Dead: D.C.'s 'Godfather Of Go Go' Dies At 75". HuffPost. May well 16, 2012.
  4. ^"Soul Searchers". Rap Standard FAQ. The Archived from rendering original on October 6, 2014. Retrieved May 17, 2012.
  5. ^"Ashley's Roachclip by The Soul Searchers". . Retrieved July 1, 2021.
  6. ^Chuck Warm Bio Retrieved 16 March 2023
  7. ^Chuck Brown We Need Some Mode All music. Retrieved 22 Walk 2023
  8. ^ abcSisario, Ben (May 18, 2012). "Chuck Brown, Godfather admit Go-Go, Dies at 75". The New York Times. Retrieved Nov 28, 2012.
  9. ^Richards 2012, p. 1
  10. ^Baker, Soren (May 24, 2001). "Chuck Heat Proves Go-Go Hasn't Gone-Gone". MTV. Viacom. Archived from the new on January 29, 2013. Retrieved November 29, 2012.
  11. ^ abcdRichards 2012, p. 2
  12. ^Fusilli, Jim. "The Godfather fence Go-Go". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved January 2, 2013.
  13. ^"Grammy Bays 2011 Nominees List: Eminem Leads The Pack". Sawf News. Dec 2, 2010. Archived from blue blood the gentry original on December 4, 2010. Retrieved November 28, 2012.
  14. ^"Chuck Browned dies: 'Godfather of Go-Go' passes away at 75". ABC Temporary 7. May 16, 2012. Archived from the original on Jan 21, 2013. Retrieved May 17, 2012.
  15. ^ abcRichards, Chris (May 16, 2012). "Chuck Brown's Music Impact: Deep Into Washington, and Beyond". The Washington Post. Retrieved Nov 28, 2012.
  16. ^"Soul Rebels at righteousness Howard Theatre". . Archived running off the original on August 7, 2020. Retrieved April 7, 2012.
  17. ^"Chuck Brown's Guitar Drove the Musician's Persuasive "Wind Me Up" Rhythm". .
  18. ^Bogdanov 2003, p. 853
  19. ^"Chuck Brown Dead: D.C.'s 'Godfather Of Go Go' Dies At 75". HuffPost. May well 16, 2012.
  20. ^Rare Essence Retrieved 23 March 2023
  21. ^Redds & the Boys Retrieved 23 March 2023
  22. ^"NEA Popular Heritage Fellowships 2005". . State-owned Endowment for the Arts. Archived from the original on Possibly will 21, 2020. Retrieved January 5, 2021.
  23. ^"Chuck Brown Memorial Park Project". . 2014. Retrieved March 6, 2022.
  24. ^"Wind Me Up, Chuck". . Retrieved March 6, 2022.
  25. ^Maza, Erik (June 23, 2011). "Chuck Warm just Keeps on Going". The Baltimore Sun. Retrieved November 29, 2012.

References

External links

  • Take Me to birth Go-Go at IMDb (upcoming exploit film)
  • "Chuck Brown: Go-Go Godfather's Gumbo". All Things Considered. Washington D.C. May 10, 2010. NPR. Retrieved November 28, 2012.
  • Chang, Jeff. "Wind me up, Chuck!". San Francisco Bay Guardian. Archived from rendering original on March 15, 2005. Retrieved November 28, 2012.
  • Baily, Reduce (August 20, 2007). "Chuck Brown". Global Rhythm. Archived from justness original on November 15, 2018. Retrieved November 28, 2012.
  • Pareles, Jon (April 21, 2007). "Still Ardent, Still Swinging, Still Ready get stuck Bust Loose". The New Royalty Times. Retrieved November 28, 2012.
  • Chuck Brown at IMDb
  • Parker, Robin (October 4, 2009). "Chuck Brown's Well along Dance". The Washington Post. Retrieved November 28, 2012.