Mel Brown ‎– I'd Rather Suck My Thumb

 

Impulse! ‎Records 1969 – AS-9186

notes:
I'd Rather Suck My Thumb is the fourth album by American
blues guitarist Mel Brown recorded in 1969 for the Impulse! label

credits:

Mel Brown - guitar, vocals
Matthew Kelly - harmonica
Clifford Coulter - organ, electric piano
Johnny Carswell - organ
Bob West - electric bass
Gregg Ferber - drums

Recorded     July-October, 1969
Soul Studios, Los Angeles,
Vault Studios, Los Angeles
Engineer – Ed Fournier (tracks: A1 to A3, B2 to B4),
Fred Borkgren (tracks: B1)

tracklist:

A1 I'd Rather Suck My Thumb
Written-By – Mel Brown
A2 Scorpio
Written-By – Mel Brown
A3 Eighteen Pounds Of Unclean Chitlings
Written-By – Mel Brown
B1 You Got Me Hummin'
Written-By – Hayes-Porter*
B2 Do Your Thing
Written By [Miscredited] – Wright-Gersti Written-By Charles Wright
B3 Troubles
Written-By – Mel Brown
B4 Dixie
Arranged By – Mel Brown Written-By – Traditional

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MEL BROWN CHICKEN FAT

 

ABC/IMPULSE RECORDS 1967                       AS 9152   

credits and sesssions recording:

          

Hollywood, CA, May 31, 1967

Personnel:

Gerald Wiggins (org)

Mel Brown, Herb Ellis (g)

Ronald Brown (b)

Paul Humphrey (d)

90799    Chicken Fat

90800    Home James

90801    Sad But True

90802    I'm Goin' To Jackson

90803    Greasy Spoon, Pt. 1

Hollywood, CA, June 1, 1967

Personnel:

Gerald Wiggins (org)

Mel Brown, Arthur Wright (g)

Ronald Brown (b)

Paul Humphrey (d)

90805 Shanty

90806 Slalom

90807 Anacrusis (Blues For Big Bob)

90808 Hobo Flats

track list:

A1     Chicken Fat     4:11
A2     Greasy Spoon     5:52
A3     Home James     6:31
A4     Anacrusis
Arranged By – Oliver Nelson 2:30
B1     Hobo Flats
Arranged By – Oliver Nelson 2:16
B2     Shanty     4:40
B3     Sad But True
Guitar [12 String Acoustic] – Herb Ellis 5:01
B4     I'm Goin' To Jackson
Guitar [12 String Acoustic] – Herb Ellis 4:23
B5     Slalom     4:26

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