Today's track, Driftin' Blues, is from the smooth singin', sweet talkin' Charles Brown. Brown moved out to Los Angeles at an early age, where the night club scene became his best order of business. The best selling Driftin' blues came out in 1945, at a time when blues was gaining credibility as a classy art form. Brown sings it smooth and gentle, he's of a slightly different breed than most blues singers. He doesn't have any harshness in his music, he's more like a jazzman in my eyes. But anyways, his
Driftin' Blues is more than catchy, carried mostly by the piano, with a very simple guitar solo.
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