| Blues for We | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Mel Brown |
| Cover: | Blues for We.jpg |
| Released: | 1969 |
| Recorded: | March 3, 1969 |
| Genre: | Blues |
| Label: | Impulse! |
| Producer: | Bob Thiele |
| Chronology: | Mel Brown |
| Prev Title: | The Wizard |
| Prev Year: | 1967 |
| Next Title: | I'd Rather Suck My Thumb |
| Next Year: | 1969 |
Blues for We is the third album by American blues guitarist Mel Brown recorded in 1969 for the Impulse! label.[1]
The Allmusic review by Jason Ankeny awarded the album 2½ stars stating "The title notwithstanding, Blues for We largely abandons all pretense of conventional blues idioms to couch Brown in a series of soul-jazz contexts that draw heavily on mainstream R&B formulas; the problem is the material, which spans from avant-garde jazz to bubblegum pop and stretches even a player of Brown's considerable range far past the point of no return. Sometimes a record can be too ambitious for its own good, and the reach of Blues for We definitely exceeds its grasp – given the choice to pursue any number of directions, Brown sets off in all of them, and loses himself in the process".[2]
All compositions by Mel Brown except as indicated