![]() ![]() The other songs are covers of blues classics such as Elmore James’ “Pickin’ The Blues” and “It Hurts Me Too”, Muddy’s “Rollin’ and Tumblin’” and the traditional “John Henry”.īrown’s songs often openly tip their hats to his influences. And, although not featured on this album, he has recently returned to his original childhood instrument, playing Big Maceo and Otis Spann-influenced piano pieces.īrown wrote eight of the 15 songs on the album, as well as entertainingly re-arranging Jimmy Rogers’ “Act Like You Love Me” and The Velvet Underground’s “Run, Run, Run”. A fine, nuanced singer, displaying a vocal timbre that evokes the early urban blues of Jimmy Rogers and Sonny Boy Williamson II, he also plays impressively dirty guitar and blows a mean harp. And like Gussow and Gross, Brown plays and sings traditional blues with deep veracity and authenticity. This, other than the geographical location, is a not dissimilar story to that of Mississippi’s Adam Gussow and Alan Gross. By day, he teaches as an Associate Professor of East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto. in modern Japanese history in 2002, he has been based in Toronto. ![]() It IS worth the effort.Sugar Brown’s Sad Day is the first full-length CD released by Toronto-based bluesman Sugar Brown and it’s a fine album containing just over an hour of classic 1950s-styled urban blues.īorn Ken Chester Kawashima in Bowling Green, Ohio, to a Japanese father and a Korean mother, Sugar Brown was given his nom de blues by Chicago blues legend Taildragger in 1992, who said to him “You ain’t black… but you sure ain’t white… You’re Sugar Brown.” Brown cut his musical teeth whilst at the University of Chicago, playing with Taildragger and other Chicago masters (such as Willie Big Eyes Smith) at venues like the now defunct Delta Fish Market. I want your ending to be happier than for my patient this week. I hope this weekâs column reaches some young woman out there who is pregnant or planning. In future, when I have that conversation again with someone, I will see this young womanâs crying face in my eyes, and I will beg again to please, please work hard to get those sugars down, I can only do so much, a lot of this is up to you.ĭiabetes is not random numbers on a sheet, it is life. This is one of the worst possible things I tell women about in my clinic when I speak about the absolute importance of getting diabetes under control. It will always cross my mind and I am sure will be on hers as well as she grieves the loss of her first child, and her hope of becoming a mother later this year. I do not know if her diabetes was the cause of this sad ending. My mind has been on her every day since then. Somehow we managed to speak a bit about how she was doing and what we needed to do to get her body healed and healthy again. I cannot even begin to express the grief on this young womanâs face, the pain, and the sadness. This clinic day was the first day I cried and prayed with a patient in my clinic. This week is the first time I have seen her since that day. After a quick appointment with me she left to visit an emergency room close to her home. This was her first, and she was happy to become a mom.ĭuring her appointment in January, she was in pain. She was gaining weight and her baby was growing well according to the ultrasound. She did not check her blood sugars often or follow the diabetic diet. ![]() She missed some insulin doses at first, and then started taking them later. At every visit I asked that she call me from home later in the week to let me know her sugars, but she never did. I said we needed to get these sugars under control QUICKLY. That first visit was grave I spoke of possible bad effects of diabetes on her pregnancy, including the chances of birth defects, early delivery, large babies, and other serious health problems or pregnancy problems. Her A1C was over 14 per cent when she got pregnant. I read in her prior medical notes that the previous doctor had asked her to be careful not to get pregnant because her diabetes control was terrible, but somehow it happened anyway. The first time I saw her, she was already 4 months pregnant. She is 24 years old and had been under the care of another doctor prior to my clinic, but she was switched to me after he left for another job. I saw a patient this week that I have been following very closely. I am jumping ahead a bit to the effect of diabetes in pregnancy because of something that happened this week. ![]()
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