Browsing: Charles Brown

Charles Brown has been inducted into both the Blues Hall Of Fame and the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame.

Nominated for Best Traditional Blues Album at the 1995 GRAMMY® Awards, Charles Brown’s Cool Christmas Blues offers a warm, laid-back set of primarily original material—including Brown’s modern yuletide classics “Please Come Home for Christmas” and the U.S. Billboard R&B chart Top 10 hit “Merry Christmas Baby.”

Unlike your stereotypical blues man, Texas-born Tony Russell Brown, called Charles, was highly educated. He graduated from college with a degree in Chemistry. Taught science and worked as an electrician and an engineer. A scientist through and through—he was also a classically trained pianist…

In advance of the projected May 8, 2015 opening of the Blues Hall of Fame, curators are at work dealing with objects related to inductees.