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  Greg Brown Biography
Greg Brown's mother played electric guitar, his grandfather played banjo, and his father was a Holy Roller preacher in the Hacklebarney section of Iowa, where the Gospel and music are a way of life.
After a year, Brown moved west to Los Angeles and Las Vegas, where he was a ghostwriter for Buck Ram, founder of the Platters.
Tired of the fast-paced life, Brown traveled with a band for a few years, and even quit playing for a while before he moved back to Iowa and began writing songs and playing in midwestern clubs and coffeehouses.
gregbrown.org /gbbio.html   (304 words)

  
 YouTube - Greg Brown w/ Bo - Jesus and Elvis
Here in Iowa where I live, greg and bo are much admired Iowa musicians.
Greg Brown and Bo Ramsey encore in asheville at...
Greg Brown and Bo Ramsey encore in asheville at the Grey Eagle.
www.youtube.com /watch?v=pdgWIJ3cQjU   (420 words)

  
 YouTube - Greg Brown "Better Days"
Greg Brown & Garnet Rogers - too bad they dont come to Texas.
Greg Brown plays "Better Days" in a Benefit for...
Greg Brown plays "Better Days" in a Benefit for the Yellow Dog river in Ishpeming, Michigan.
www.youtube.com /watch?v=cgcfnV2qjuA   (316 words)

  
 Acclaim Posters: Food and Drink Posters and Prints
Humorous Greg Brown print of vegetables forming the shape of a reclining nude.
Humorous Greg Brown art print of veggies dancing around a pot, using kitchen utensils as instruments.
The colors of the background are all neutral shades of brown and beige, running in vertical stripes.
www.acclaimposters.com /_gallery/Food_and_Drink_Posters_and_Prints   (5604 words)

  
  Greg Brown and his Two Little Feet » MusicRocker
Greg Brown and his Two Little Feet » MusicRocker
Thanksgiving is good day to listen carefully to the great Greg Brown with his warm insightful songs of people, relationship and spirit.
One Response to “Greg Brown and his Two Little Feet”
www.musicrocker.com /2005/11/25/greg-brown-and-his-two-little-feet   (474 words)

  
 Greg Brown (folk musician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A year later, Brown moved west to Portland and then Los Angeles and Las Vegas, where he was a ghostwriter for Buck Ram, founder of the Platters.
Brown then traveled with a band for a few years, and then quit playing for a while before he moved back to Iowa and began writing songs and playing in clubs and coffeehouses.
Brown's mother played electric guitar, his grandfather played banjo, and his father was a Methodist minister in Earlville, Iowa.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Greg_Brown_(folk_musician)   (478 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Greg Brown   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Greg Brown studied classical voice and piano as a kid, and sang with choirs and in state competitions.
Greg Brown produced 44 and 66 himself for his own Red House Records, and the setting is casual.
As Bruce Springsteen is to New Jersey and William Faulkner is to Mississippi, Greg Brown is to Iowa.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Greg-Brown   (760 words)

  
 Player Bio: Greg Brown :: Women's Basketball
Brown approaches the game from a teacher's perspective, having had the opportunity to learn from two of the greatest teachers of the game; Don Meyer, his mentor at David Lipscomb University (currently of Northern State), and Summitt, who have combined for 1,590 victories between them.
Brown, a native of Shepherdsille, Ky., was a student coach under Coach Meyer at David Lipscomb University from 1991-93.
Brown was a two-time District 8A Coach of the Year and led his Lady Commanders to three district championships, a region championship, three sub-state appearances and nabbed one sub-state title.
utladyvols.cstv.com /sports/w-baskbl/mtt/brown_greg00.html   (460 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Milk Of The Moon: Music: Greg Brown   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Greg Brown sounds like he has dirt beneath his fingernails, gravel in his throat, and stars in his eyes.
Greg once again is true to his roots, as he does perform in a personal and warm premise.
Greg Brown is probably the only musician of whom I would say I am a fan.
www.amazon.ca /Milk-Moon-Greg-Brown/dp/B000060P7E   (836 words)

  
 Inside Greg Brown's 'Mind' - Undefined Section
Brown's 1998 release, "Slant 6 Mind," received a four-star review by Rolling Stone and is nominated for the Folk Album of the Year Grammy.
The well-versed Brown is always looking for a new approach to the process that he finds "interesting" and said he would consider getting published as a future venture.
Brown finds that the audience is able to relax and enjoy the music much more in smaller, more comfortable environments.
www.iowastatedaily.com /news/1999/01/28/UndefinedSection/Inside.Greg.Browns.mind-1085837.shtml   (621 words)

  
 Greg Brown   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Browns offers his reflections on small town life, from descriptions of the community characters hanging around the corner store to the importance of family bonds in keeping one's life grounded.
Highlights include "Speaking in Tongues", which draws on Brown's memories as the son of a Pentecostal preacher; the bluegrass-tinged "Wild Like a Sonny Boy"; "Loneliness House", a meditation on depression; and "Whatever It Was", a stinging attack on modern society.
Taking a vacation from Red House, his regular label, Greg Brown recorded this collection for the even smaller Trailer Records, which is based in his home state of Iowa.
www.musicoutfitters.com /artists/brown.htm   (1053 words)

  
 Greg Brown - Biography - AOL Music
With his sandpaper-coarse but sensitive baritone, Greg Brown offers keen insights into the realities and foibles of modern life tinged with a hefty dose of common sense.
Brown had founded his own record label, Red House, a few years back, and had issued the albums 44 & 66 and Iowa Waltz, but had turned over control to Bob Feldman to concentrate on writing and performing.
Brown's profile increased through the '90s with such acclaimed albums as Dream Cafe (1992), Poet Game (1994), Further In (1996), and Slant 6 Mind (1997).
music.aol.com /artist/greg-brown/1932/biography   (403 words)

  
 Music Spectrum: American Folk: Greg Brown in Concert (Cedarburg, WI)
I first heard the charm of Greg Brown’s voice coming from the tape player in the kitchen at YMCA Camp Menogyn on West Bearskin Lake in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area of Minnesota.
Greg Brown’s voice, guitar, and lyrics were the perfect soundtrack for this.
Since then, Greg Brown has come to be one of the largest multiple album artists in my collection.
www.musicspectrum.org /2004/03/american-folk-greg-brown-in-concert.html   (996 words)

  
 PAHC - About Us - Greg Brown
Greg Brown’s talent and his wry sense of humor are on display in the conference
Greg to commemorate its work in developing affordable housing in Palo Alto for the past thirty years.
Greg Brown’s murals have been a visual delight in Palo Alto since 1976, when he was first known as a
www.paloaltohousingcorp.org /about/greg_brown.htm   (332 words)

  
 Player Bio: Greg Brown :: Men's Ice Hockey
Greg Brown, one of the best defensemen in Boston College history, is in his second season as a member of Jerry York's staff.
A 1990 Boston College graduate, Brown was a two-time All-America first-team selection (1989 and 1990), a two-time Hobey Baker Award finalist and a two-time All-New England choice.
Brown played three seasons for the Eagles (1986-87, 1988-89 and 1989-90), serving as team captain in 1989-90.
bceagles.cstv.com /sports/m-hockey/mtt/brown_greg00.html   (374 words)

  
 Greg Brown - AskTheBrain.com
Greg Lathwell made a quick fire 62 in what turned out to be another century stand and Brown Dog weighed in with a quick fire duck.
Greg Brown was once again unable to play and Michael Farrell filled the scoring void with 42 points and 7 assists.
So, when FBI Special Agent Greg Metzger and his partner arrived at Brown's home for their scheduled meeting, they were greeted by Brown and his wife, Mary, along with reporters and photographers from various media outlets.
www.askthebrain.com /brown_greg-.html   (411 words)

  
 Metroactive Music | Greg Brown
In some ways, there are two Greg Browns: tender and tough, acoustic and electric, funny and sorrowful, cynical and filled with an unquenchable thirst for life.
Brown returns to the North Bay on May 1, along with his singer-songwriter daughter Pieta and his longtime accompanist Bo Ramsey (whose stinging slide-guitar work can be heard on Lucinda Williams 1998 breakthrough album Car Wheels on a Gravel Road).
The son of Pentecostal preacher and electric-guitarist mother, Brown is an old-time folkie blessed with a gravelly baritone, a reflective nature and an acerbic wit.
www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/04.28.04/brown-0418.html   (753 words)

  
 River of Song: The Artists
Greg Brown is the preeminent singer/songwriter on the contemporary midwestern folk scene, and became a national figure in the 1980s as house songwriter for Prairie Home Companion.
Brown's music is a surprising fusion of midwestern roots and a searching, quirky imagination that took him east to New York's Greenwich Village in 1969, west on the Beatnik-hippie trail, and on to Las Vegas, where he had a job ghost-writing pop songs.
Brown's songs are startling in their directness, acuity and wry humor.
www.pbs.org /riverofsong/artists/e1-greg.html   (286 words)

  
 Trailer Records > Catalog > Greg Brown > Honey In The Lion's Head   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A singer-songwriter revered by other troubadours, Greg Brown returns to lend his craggy baritone to a selection of folk standards from the public domain.
Produced with long-time sideman Bo Ramsey, Greg is joined on his latest release by regular sidemen Ramsey, Al Murphy and Bob Black, with additional musical support and harmonies from daughters Pieta and Constie Brown, as well as his wife, Iris DeMent.
Brown's seductive baritone is instrumentally supported by co-producer Bo Ramsey on electric guitar and Weissenborn, Al Murphy on fiddle and mandolin, Bob Black on banjo and five string lap guitar and Rick Cicalo on acoustic bass and, of course, Brown's own acoustic guitar picking.
www.trailer-records.com /catalog/35_main.shtml   (432 words)

  
 Folk-music icon Greg Brown brings wide-ranging show to Cave Creek
He may not be a household name, but Greg Brown is one of the most important figures of folk music from the past 30 years.
Brown visits the Valley on Wednesday for an intimate concert under the stars in Cave Creek.
Brown is also a successful independent record executive, running Red House Records, the home of singer-songwriters Lucy Kaplansky, Cliff Eberhardt and John Gorka.
www.azcentral.com /ent/music/articles/0106acousticshow06.html   (214 words)

  
 Greg Brown Milk of the Moon by Steven Stone
On his eighteenth release for Red House records, Brown continues to produce quirky individualistic music that appeals to your brain as it sets your feet tapping.
Since 1981 Greg has been creating a body of remarkable music that proves that the road less traveled can be a major artistic highway.
Folk music is often used as prerogative term, but on Milk of the Moon Greg Brown elevates the genre of original singer-songwriter folk music to a plane just about level with the lunar surface.
www.enjoythemusic.com /magazine/music/1103/brown.htm   (300 words)

  
 Trailer Records > Artist Profiles > Greg Brown   (Site not responding. Last check: )
He is a powerful, compelling, and often humorous performer who moves his audiences with the warmth of his dark, rich voice and the unpretentious clarity of his musical vision.
The preaching life took Greg's family from small town to small town, and his youth is spread across a map of the central Midwest.
Greg landed a job at Gerdes Folk City in the Village, running hootenannies.
www.trailer-records.com /artists/brown.shtml   (751 words)

  
 4marks.com: Folk Concert: Greg Brown
Greg Brown performs a benefit for the Tom Sustic Fund at Lebanon Opera House on Thursday, November 2, 2006 at 7:30pm.
Greg Brown's mother played electric guitar, his grandfather played banjo, and his father was a Holy Roller preacher in the Hacklebarney section of Iowa, where the Gospel and music are a way of life.
Tired of the fast-paced life, Brown traveled with a band for a few years, and even quit playing for a while before he moved back to Iowa and began writing songs and playing in midwestern clubs and coffeehouses.
www.catholicmatch.com /pl/pages/events/details.html?ra=1;event_id=13177   (453 words)

  
 The Ark - Greg Brown
Greg Brown is the son of a preacher man (Pentecostal), and maybe that's the source of his uncanny charisma.
Over three decades on the road and two in the recording studio, Brown has developed into the essential Midwestern songwriter, with a feel for the varieties of love and for what makes people and communities hang together.
She's very far from a Greg Brown clone, but charisma and stage presence definitely run in the family.
www.theark.org /685.html   (99 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Poet Game: Music: Greg Brown   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Greg Brown Prints — We have 11 Greg Brown prints.
This, my first Greg album, is still my sentimental favorite, with lyrical passages that still surprise and move me. Two events have come together to bring it all home again: I just finished the Peace Corps, which celebrated it's 40th anniversary since JFK created it, and September 11th.
There isn't a folk artist out there who can match Greg in terms of that home-grown, old-time dylanesque feel that transports you into the homes and hearts of the characters he sings about, and the most ineteresting character he sings about is himself.
www.amazon.com /Poet-Game-Greg-Brown/dp/B000001BAA   (853 words)

  
 FAME Review: Greg Brown - One Night
Greg recorded it live in 1982, after his first two albums, Iowa Waltz and 44and66, were issued and already out of stock.
Brown was, in the early 80's, a very promising songwriter, but he really demonstrated his potential only in the 90's.
Brown himself, and not unlike the one on Further In, it is very interesting and original.
www.acousticmusic.com /fame/p01125.htm   (517 words)

  
 Greg Brown Concerts
Recording artist Greg Brown will present two concerts at the Appleton Public Library June 17 at 4:00pm and 7:30pm in the lower level meeting room.
Brown's publicity brochure says "Greg Brown writes powerful, intimate songs, full of unforgettable images and well-lit snapshots of the human condition.
Brown has appeared on Prairie Home Companion and at the Big Top Chautauqua.
www.apl.org /fp/archives/summer99/GregBrown.htm   (186 words)

  
 Greg Brown Tickets - Find Greg Brown Tickets Information
James Brown, 'the Godfather of Soul,' dies of heart failure (Greg Bluestein / ASSOCIATED PRESS) (The Washington Times) James Brown, the dynamic, pompadoured "Godfather of Soul," whose revolutionary rhythms, rough voice and flashing footwork influenced generations of musicians from rock to rap, died early Christmas morning.
News) James Brown's music career will come full circle when his body is brought to rest on the stage of the legendary Apollo Theater in Harlem, where he made his explosive debut, and the world changed to his beat.
Brown left lasting impact on his hometown (The Times and Democrat) AUGUSTA, Ga. - There were two sides to the Godfather of Soul, and few places knew that as well as his hometown of Augusta.
www.barrystickets.com /tickets.php?EID=Greg-Brown   (510 words)

  
 Amazon.com: In the Hills of California: Music: Greg Brown   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Rare is the voice that is both as deep and as warm as Greg Brown's.
Greg Brown's newest release has already embedded itself into my list of one of the best Cds I've ever listened to.
Greg is a genius songwriter, and his music satisfies some deep primal need we all have to feel satisfied and fulfilled inside, even though we may not know what we are looking for.
www.amazon.com /Hills-California-Greg-Brown/dp/B0002O06Q2   (957 words)

  
 Greg Brown News
Greg Brown: He's the elder statesman of modern American folk, with three decades and more than 20 albums to his name.
Greg Brown, The Gibson Brothers perform at Snowbird.
The Mimbres Region Arts Council has announced that tickets are now available for sale to the public for the rescheduled Greg Brown concerts that were canceled last weekend due to the sudden and unexpected death...
www.topix.net /who/greg-brown   (607 words)

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