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Rabbit Brown

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Songster Richard "Rabbit" Brown was from New Orleans, Louisiana and recorded six sides for the Victor Talking Machine Company. He was from was Jane's (not James) Alley, renowned as an exciting and dangerous place in turn of the century New Orleans. Fellow bluesman Lemon Nash remembered that Brown lived in the "Battlefield," a neighborhood so tough that the police would not go in to quell disturbances (Nash in a 1959 interview with Dick Allen, in Hogan Jazz Archive, Tulane University). Jane's Alley was also the original home of Louis Armstrong.Rabbit sang on the streets and was a regular performer Tom Anderson's Saloon and at the Mama Lou's nightclub. Brown also apparently was employed as a singing boatman, rowing tourists around Lake Ponchatrain. His most famous song was "The Downfall of the Lion," a ballad about the death of the New Orleans Police Chief. MyGen Profile Generator

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Member Since: 8/16/2006
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Folkways

Anthology of Ameican Folk Music Anthology of American Folk MusicVolume 3: Songs, Track 61JAMES ALLEY BLUESRichard "Rabbit" Brown Recorded New Orleans,  LA: March 11,  1927Richard "Rabbit" B...
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Wikipedia

Rabbit Brown From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Rabbit Brown's best known song: James Alley Blues Richard "Rabbit" Brown (c1880c1937) was a Black blues guitarist an...
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Kevin S. Fontenot's article on Rabbit Brown

TIMES AIN'T LIKE THEY USED TO BE:RABBIT BROWN, NEW ORLEANS SONGSTER By Kevin S. Fontenot In 1900 they were everywhere. Singing on street corners, in front of circus entrances, or just moving down th...
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The Mystery of The Dunbar Child Re-visited!

Finding Bobby Dunbar After nearly a century, DNA may finally solve mystery young victim   Bobby Dunbar, right, who was kidnapped in 1912, poses in this old photograph with his mother, Lessi...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 13:05:00 GMT