Born Napoleon Culp, he borrowed his father’s surname, Brown. He had a deep, raw voice and a powerful delivery derived from gospel. In songs like “Don’t Be Angry” and “Piddily Patter Patter” (also ...

Nappy Brown, a blues and R&B singer whose playful songs of the mid-1950s — filled with nonsense syllables, eccentric pronunciation and a heavy beat — had touches of early rock ‘n’ roll style, has died ...

During their "A Bigger Bang" tour of 2005-07, the Rolling Stones often paid tribute to the late Ray Charles with a performance of "(Night Time Is) The Right Time". Though Charles is most commonly ...

Nappy Brown, 78, a gospel-influenced R&B; and blues singer of such hits as “It Don’t Hurt No More,” “I Cried Like a Baby” and “Don’t Be Angry,” died Sept. 13 in Charlotte, N.C., after a lengthy ...

The album title is just as appropriate as Brown’s 1969 “Thanks For Nothing.” The album had been a long time coming before its September release, and it would be unfair to the R&B innovator from the ...

CHARLOTTE -- Influential Charlotte-born blues and R&B singer Nappy Brown died Saturday at Carolinas Medical Center-Mercy at the age of 78. After a show-stopping performance at the Blues Music Awards ...

Nappy Brown, a gospel singer turned rhythm and blues star, had one of the most distinctive voices of the 1950s. His throaty and compelling gospel inspired vocals were combined with a deliberate ...

In the last year of his life, the rhythm and blues singer Nappy Brown, who has died aged 78, was honoured by the state of South Carolina, nominated for two awards by the Blues Foundation, featured on ...

I thought about Nappy Brown on Saturday night at the Back Room Bar in Boca Raton. I was there to hear Bob Margolin, a veteran blues guitarist who played with Muddy Waters and in the last couple of ...

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