Charles Brown: His Blues Get a New Audience
Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 29 September 1990
Comeback: The low-key, urbane music of veteran singer-pianist Charles Brown fell out of favor during the rock era, but he is winning new fans opening for Bonnie Raitt.
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