Mel Brown
Blues, Musical Artist
1939 – 2009
Who was Mel Brown?
Mel Brown was an American-born blues guitarist.
Brown was nominated for a Juno Award in both 2001 and 2002. Brown, a long-time smoker, died aged 69, on March 20, 2009, in Kitchener, Ontario, of complications from emphysema.
One of his most celebrated tracks is the 11+ minute guitar solo "Eighteen Pounds of Unclean Chitluns", which is on his "I'd Rather Suck My Thumb" LP, and was reissued as the lead track on a Blueway collection released sometime after the Impulse albums. In 1969-1970, it got quite a bit of airplay on the San Francisco FM rock station, KSAN.
A documentary film, titled "Love Lost & Found: The Story of Mel Brown" directed by Sean Jasmins for Blue Fusion Productions is slated for theatrical release in 2013.
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- Born
- Oct 7, 1939
Jackson - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Died
- Mar 20, 2009
Kitchener
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on July 23, 2013
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