Charles Brown Driftin'

Just wanted to share some music from one of the greatest blues singers I've ever heard.
I heard this guy's voice on the radio when I was about 17 and I never forgot the song. I tried singing it for people in the record store - even at places like Amoeba, for their Jazz and Blues "specialists," and no one could place it. (I acknowledge my rendition could have been a bit lacking, but still... )
I finally found out the song I had heard about 14 years ago was Through the Courtesy of Love, by Charles Brown.
As it turns out, he was nowhere near as obscure as I would have thought, based on the trouble it took to track down the CD.
He's in the goddamn Rock n Roll Hall of Fame!
I've got a James Brown Christmas album with a Charles Brown cover on it - and I never knew it! (To be fair, it's one that James croons his way rather well through, but now having heard the original, it sounds like a Charles Brown impersonation).
Interestingly, he passed away in my hometown of Oakland just a few years ago.
Apparently he had a resurgence of popularity in the 1990s and did some touring. This would have been right around the time I heard him on the radio (which makes an awful lot of sense in retrospect). What a bummer I never figured out who he was until after he died.
At least the life of the art is extending on.
Check out this video of him performing his signature hit "Driftin'" in Los Angeles in the 1980s.