1 	Take Your Time 	4:33
2 	Blues - A Beautiful Thing 	
3 	Ruby Mae 	
4 	Snap 	
5 	I Wouldn't Treat A Dog 	
6 	Red Cross Store 	
7 	Sundown 	
8 	Make Love To Your Mind 	
9 	I Wanna See My Baby 	
10 	Master Blaster 	
11 	Karansa's Boogie

Jimmy Boudreau - Drums
Mel Brown - Guitar, Keyboards, Vocals
Randall Coryell - Drums
John Lee Hooker - Keyboards
John "Babbacombe" Lee - Keyboards
Al Richardson  - Bass
Leo Valvassori - Bass

Guitar Legend and W.C. Handy Award winner Mel Brown returns with his first new studio album in 5 years. Backed by his super tight band The Homewreckers, Mel performs an incredible range of blues music - 9 of the 11 tracks are originals. --cduniverse.com

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The Wizard
1 	Ode To Billie Joe 	4:23
2 	Swamp Fever 	6:07
3 	Blues For After Hours 	6:34
4 	African Sweets 	3:11
5 	Stop 	4:21
6 	Chunk A Funk 	4:55
7 	Miss Ann 	4:10
8 	W-2 Withholding 	2:14
Blues For We
9 	Twist And Shout 	2:39
10 	Blues For We 	2:57
12 	Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da 	3:36
12 	Son Of A Preacher Man 	3:33
13 	Set Me Free 	2:37
14 	Freaky Zeke 	4:19
15 	Indian Giver 	3:40
16 	Stranger On The Shore 	3:37

Mel Brown - Composer, Guitar, Vocals
Bass – Ronald Brown (tracks: 1 to 8)
Drums – Paul Humphrey (tracks: 1 to 8)
Guitar – Mel Brown, Terry Evans (tracks: 1 to 8)
Tenor Saxophone – Clifford Solomon (tracks: 1 to 8)
Trumpet – Mack Johnson (tracks: 1 to 8)
Arranger, Conductor, Orchestration – Artie Butler (tracks: 9 to 16)

This remastered two-fer combines guitarist Mel Brown's second Impulse release from 1968, The Wizard, with Blues for We released the following year. The Wizard is a straight-ahead soul-jazz date picking up where Chicken Fat left off with a few originals alongside funky renditions of “Ode to Billie Joe” and Pee Wee Crayton’s R&B hit of the late '40s “Blues After Hours.” Blues for We relies more on an interesting selection of cover versions ranging from “Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da” and “Son of a Preacher Man” to the bubblegum staple by the 1910 Fruitgum Company “Indian Giver” and Acker Bilk’s “Stranger on the Shore,” which was the theme of a BBC television drama. Brown’s guitar work on both sessions is fluid and greasy, as are the funky drum licks, but occasionally, the arrangements drift into superior background music. New liner notes are absent, but the original packaging -- front and back cover art and liner notes -- remain intact. --- Al Campbell, AllMusic Review

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1.   "Chicken Fat" - 4:16
2.    "Greasy Spoon" - 5:53
3.    "Home James" - 6:34
4.    "Slalom" - 2:31
5.    "Hobo Flats" - 2:18
6.    "Shanty" - 4:40
7.    "Sad But True" - 5:01
8.    "I'm Goin' to Jackson" - 4:24
9.    "Blues for Big Bob" - 4:25

Musicians:
Mel Brown - guitar
Herb Ellis (1-3, 7 & 8), Arthur Wright (4-6 & 9) - guitar
Gerald Wiggins - organ (1, 3-7 & 9)
Ronald Brown - bass
Paul Humphrey - drums (1-4, 7 & 8)

Guitarist Mel Brown is hailed as "An Impulse! Discovery" on Chicken Fat, his debut for the label, and this album does feature a fantastic unique sound. Brown played in the bands of T-Bone Walker and John Lee Hooker, and has an aggressive (though not harsh) single-string picking style. For this date he is paired with either Herb Ellis or Arthur Wright on guitar, Gerald Wiggins on organ, and Brown's regular rhythm section of Paul Humphrey on drums and Ronald Brown on electric bass. There are a couple tracks that are played as pretty straight blues, but this is a hoppin' soul-jazz date. The tunes are bouncy and funky, and Brown's playing is a real treat. His bluesy, almost reckless soloing gives a vastly different flavor that the playing of guys like Grant Green or Melvin Sparks. Gerald Wiggins' organ playing is cool and swinging, and the electric bass of Ronald Brown makes this album about as funky as Impulse ever got. Both Herb Ellis and Arthur Wright get some solo space as well, with Ellis sounding quite interesting playing an unamplified 12-string on a couple cuts. Brown gets some nice tones as well, and on "Hobo Flats" plays "an electronic guitar with Wah-Wah distortion" (remember, this is 1967 jazz) "that gives a weird shimmering sound," according to the liner notes. Leave it to Impulse! to put a new spin on the guitar/organ sound. This is hot stuff. --- Sean Westergaard, Rovi

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1 	Woke Up This Morning 	4.39 	
2 	Fannie Mae 	4.94 	
3 	The Sky Is Crying 	8.45 	
4 	I'm Your Hoochie Kootchie Man 	5.27 	
5 	I'll Play the Blues for You 	5.89 	
6 	Billy Jean 	3.58 	
7 	Honeybee 	3.67 	
8 	Spoonful 	7.86 	
9 	Hey Joe 	12.17 	
10 	Turn On Your Love Lights

Personnel: 
Mel Brown (vocals, guitar); 
John Lee (vocals, keyboards); 
David Wiffin (saxophone); 
Al Richardson (bass); 
Jim Boudreau, Randy Coryell (drums).

After several years of self-imposed exile, Mel Brown blazed back to the top of the blues world in 2000 with his Electro-Fi debut "Neck Bones & Caviar" (EFI #3363), and the album went on to win the coveted W.C. Handy "Blues Comeback Album of the Year" award. Now he's back in the saddle again with his super tight band in a series of dynamic live performances, pulling out all the stops. Brown showcases his lucid, emotion-packed solos, funky rhythm chops, and soulful baritone vocals. ---Editorial Review

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01. Love Lost And Found 
02. My Baby Wants To Boogie
03. You Were Wrong, Pretty Baby 		play
04. Red Wine And Moonshine
05. Little Girl From Maine 
06. Pattern B
07. Blues In The Alley 
08. Feel Like Jumping
09. Come Back Baby 
10. Slow Moan					play
11. Blues In A Plain Brown Wrapper 
12. Hoochie Coochie Man 01. Love Lost And Found 

Personnel: 
Mel Brown (vocals, guitar, piano, Clavinet, organ).

The final album from the late blues guitar legend and W.C. Handy Award winner Mel Brown. Features previously unreleased tracks of Mel at his very best with his close friend the Chicago harp legend Snooky Pryor, fellow Mississippi mojo master Sam Myers (Anson Funderburgh & The Rockets), Miss Angel and his protege emerging guitar star Enrico Crivellaro. Also includes unreleased vintage tracks from his Bluesway/Impulse era heyday in the early 1970's with additional guitar solos recorded by Mel in 2009. The haunting and achingly beautiful original instrumental title track Love, Lost and Found on which Mel played guitar, piano and B-3 organ may be the pinnacle of his incredible career. ---Editorial Review

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