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Fifth Ward music mogul Don Robey was so taken with Gatemouth Brown's talents that he built his entire Peacock label around him. Robey already owned the Bronze Peacock night club and various other business interests, but it was his meeting of Brown that truly launched them both into Texas and world music immortality.
Although their relationship would sour by the end of the '50s, along the way the genre-smashing multi-instrumentalist Brown wo
