Nappy Brown biography, Nappy Brown discography
Nappy once again unleashes those powerful pipes on his new Blind Pig album, Long Time Coming.It recalls his early heyday by revisiting several of his Savoy classics, yet sends him in fresh and intriguing directions too.October 12, 1929, Nappy hails from a sanctified household.He was the bass singer in the choir.Give me some of that money!Nappy, because, see, Napoleon was too long to go on the record back then.Surprisingly, he had conceived it as a ballad, in the style of a mellow vocal group such as the Orioles.Cuts cover for Mercury impacted his pop airplay.Then Ray Charles picked it up.Brown proceeded to wage a triumphant comeback, cutting critically lauded albums for Landslide (1984's Tore Up, reissued on Alligator) and Black Top (Something Gonna Jump Out the Bushes!Blind Pig Records, a division of Whole Hog, Inc.Recording sessions for a new CD were recently held in Kernersville, North Carolina, not too far from Brown's hometown of Charlotte.Producer Scott Cable, best known for work with blues legend Carey Bell, has known Nappy since childhood.The time is right now for the public at large to hear and appreciate a singer of Nappy's caliber with the right backing.We have finally been able to produce the REAL Nappy Brown record that so many of us have known he had in him.CD in the fall of 2007.But in the early '80s, ...Various Artists
Life's a Beach, Vol.They brought old 33 records to be autographed.All the shows were packed.I'm a Wild Man 1995
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