hey-found this quote on another website about this "Fats" guy. Just a kinda F.Y.I. for the curious---Wm. Manchester III

"...It's gonna be awesome. "Fat" won't allow his stuff to be put on iTunes or any other online music service so that limits his popularity these days. You kind of have to hunt to find his stuff. He was really slow to even come out on CD. Most of the stuff I have is on LP.

He was up for a Grammy in 1974 for his breakout album that really brought him to the blues public eye: "Fat, Brown and Blue All Over". This was the first mass market recording of "Nobody But My Mamma Love Me...". He didn't win that year but it did lead to a tour that brought him out of Mississippi for the first time in his life.

The new one will be a retrospective of some of his best songs through the years and does indeed include such legends as Blind Mellow Jelly, David St. Hubbins and Derek Smalls, Ladysmith Black Mombazo, David Bowie and the most amazing version of "Dueling Banjos" ever featuring Fat's Rockland BB-50 (Blues Box) and BB King on "Lucille".

With the holidays upon us I also have to recommend Guitar Fat Brown's Christmas album "Ghosts of Christmas Past" featuring remixed duets with various dead singers including Bing Crosby, Burl Ives, Kate Smith, Nat King Cole, Jim Morrison, Sid Vicious and Karen Carpenter."