Standing My Ground

Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 5, 1989)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Alligator Records
• ASIN: B0000009ZF
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #202,431 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com essential recording

Another fine recording from the genre-bending multi-instrumentalist, Standing My Ground finds Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown turning a hand at guitar, vocals, and fiddle as usual, as well as piano on the jumping "Never Unpack Your Suitcase" and some great drum breaks on "She Walks Right In." There's a stellar swing-jazz piece, appropriately titled "Cool Jazz," and a blues-zydeco mix on, yep, "Louisiana Zydeco." The high point, though, is Gate's take on "What Am I Living For," as tender a blues ballad as has ever been recorded. In addition, Gate breathes new life into "Got My Mojo Working," which has got to be one of the most frequently covered blues songs on record. --Genevieve Williams

From Grove Press Guide to Blues on CD

Brown continues his sui generis way with blues and other American musics. Relying on a top-flight horn section for chatoyance, he blends his fervency and lyricism into some of the most fetching songs he's recorded in his Rounder years, from "Got My Mojo Working" to "Never Unpack Your Suitcase." And for someone who hates easy categorization, the eccentric Texan has given a few of his songs revealing titles: "Cool Jazz" and "Louisiana Zydeco. -- © Frank John Hadley 1993

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Refined,with rare competency!!!, May 26, 2001

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Ricardo Neves Gonzalez (Petrópolis-R.J. [e-mail]) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Standing My Ground (Audio CD)

This is for me one of the most refined cds,of my entire collection.The competency of Clarence to sing and play is a constant in all this work.He plays fiddle magnifically,mixing cool-jazz with blues,rythm &blues,zydeco,extending all the concepts we have about a good music.This cd is for that people who loves the perfection,extremely worked here.Refined like less others!!! So,what we can do is to recomend!!To recomend!!To recomend!!!

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Love it, June 20, 2008

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Incredibleman "Incredibleman" (Calgary, Alberta) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Standing My Ground (Audio CD)

There's lots of nice jazz/blues on this cd, great horn section, etc. I saw an ad in a guitarist's magazine of some sort once, that said Clarence is the only guitarist who's influenced more guitarists than he's been influenced by.

I'm the 4th reviewer out of 4 to give it 5 stars - I predict that if you like blues you will like this CD; if you like jazz you will like this CD. If you don't like jazz or blues, well, I can't help you.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Blues, Zydeco, Jazz, Take Your Pick, March 8, 2001

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Bob Glaser (Burlington, IA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Standing My Ground (Audio CD)

This is one of the CD's that I never get tired of listening to. Gatemouth can do it all. He is as comfortable playing jazz as he is singing the blues. He is one versital musician, at some point during this record he plays the guitar, fiddle, piano and drums. I'd be happy beong able to play a single instument as well as he plays any one of those.