Entries from Houstonist tagged with 'blueslegends'
August 1, 2008
Houstonist just discovered, courtesy of the Houston Blues Society, The Houston Press and the Beaumont Enterprise, Gatemouth's grave in the Hollywood Cemetery in Orange, Texas is without a headstone, three years after his death. Brown, born in Vinton, Louisiana, was raised in Orange and got his music career going in 1945, when he began playing drums professionally in San Antonio. He became famous in Houston at Don Robey's Bronze Peacock in 1947, when T-Bone Walker......
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