Miss Angel, Shawn Kellerman - Down in Mississippi (2015)

Tracklist

01. Down in Mississippi
02. Say It Ain't So
03. Honey Boo
04. I Like Your Soul
05. You Know You Were Wrong
06. It's a Bad Night to Be a Stray Dog
07. Thank You Lord
08. Born with Five Senses
09. This Train
10. Don't You Feel My Leg
11. This Love
12. 16 Tons
13. Blues in the Alley



Miss Angel found the tape safely tucked inside a box — a high-quality recording of her singing a classic blues tune while her late husband, Mel Brown, played guitar over his pre-recorded tracks for bass, drums and keyboards.

For decades the two musicians collaborated like this — first Mel would lay down all the tracks. Then he called Angel into their music room to sing while he played guitar. Every house the couple shared, from Nashville, Tenn., to Austin, Texas, to Kitchener, had a room where Mel kept his instruments and recording gear — the music room.

This time, the music room was located in 56 Cameron St. N. near downtown Kitchener, and the song — "It's a Bad Night to be a Stray Dog" — was written by the Chicago-based acoustic blues great Fruitland Jackson. While Mel was famous for his guitar skills, he played keyboards, upright-and-electric bass and drums like a pro.

Angel included this track on the new CD, "Down in Mississippi," the newly released tribute to her late husband, considered to be one of the best soul-funk-jazz-blues fusion guitar players to ever come out of Mississippi.

The CD was produced by Shawn Kellerman, the guitar ace who was mentored by Mel and is currently the music director for Dallas-based bluesman Lucky Peterson. Lucky Peterson plays the Hammond B3 on a new take of the traditional "This Train."

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