Growing up on the border between Texas and Louisiana, Clarence 'Gatemouth' Brown
soaked up the area's melting pot of styles from Cajun to bluegrass to jazz and
evolved into a true master of electrified Americana roots music. Taught guitar
by his musician father as a five-year-old, Brown was initially inspired by the
likes of Count Basie, Duke Ellington and the big bands of the 1930s, and went on
to learn drums, mandolin, viola, piano and became one of the few blues stars to
also play fiddle. Earning the nickname 'Gatemouth' when a High School teacher
remarked that he had "a voice...