Brian Mitchell

BRIAN MITCHELL was a graduate from the 1998 South West TAFE (Warrnambool) music course. He wrote and recorded the song "Cold winter blues". This title has been used for a number of different songs. In 1996 Shirley Scott recorded it on her album "On a clear day". Shirley was an American hard bop and soul-jazz organist. She was best known for working with her husband, Stanley Turrentine, and with Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, both saxophonists. She was known as "Queen of the Organ". It was also the title of a song by Bill McAdoo and Pete Seeger which was recorded in 1960 on an  album featured traditional and original songs that deal with love, loss and, most strikingly, the American civil rights movement.