A Rainbow in Brown

By the same token, Brown has learned to enjoy his downtime. "The houses here, they call 'em 'camps,' but I've enlarged mine. If you ever saw it, you'd see it's no fishin' cottage--it's a home. I'm a bachelor, see, and this is real nice." But he hastens to add that he's not even close to ready to hang up his guitar for good. "Let's put it this way," he says. "I don't care what age you are--you get out there for a month or so and you get tired. You want to go and rest, and that's what I do. But retirement, no. That's for people who are burned out. Me, I've got all kinds of things that I do. I've got so much going on."

Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown. 8 p.m. Thursday, October 23, Bluebird Theater, 3317 East Colfax Avenue, $17, 830-