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  Tall Stacks Music Arts & Heritage Fesitval
Junior Brown is a man who knows where he’s been and exactly where he’s heading.
Probably Brown’s biggest contribution to the music world was his invention of the “guit steel” guitar, an idea Brown had been carrying with him and developed along with friend Michael Stevens.
Junior Brown never forgets his country roots during his live sets, but it is not unlikely to see a bit of jazz guitar, mixed with classic surf instrumentals, interwoven with a smattering of blues.
www.tallstacks.com /Entertainment/Music_JuniorBrown.html   (318 words)

  
  Junior Brown
Junior Brown (born 1953) is an American country singer from Kirksville, Indiana[?].
Brown quickly became a local success in Austin, Texas at the Continental Club.
His debut album was 1993's 12 Shades of Brown[?]; it was followed by Guit with It[?] later that year (1993 in music).
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ju/Junior_Brown.html   (117 words)

  
 Junior Brown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jamieson "Junior" Brown (born June 12, 1952) is an American country guitarist and singer from Kirksville, Indiana.
Brown quickly became a local success in Austin, Texas as the house band at the Continental Club.
Brown's music has been showcased on various tv shows and movie soundtracks, including Me, Myself and Irene, Spongebob Squarepants and The Dukes of Hazzard (film), in which he also played the narrator.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Junior_Brown   (477 words)

  
 Telarc International: Junior Brown
But Junior, whose father taught at a liberal arts college, was also able to tap into what was playing on campuses during that same period — Mississippi John Hurt, Lightnin’ Hopkins, John Lee Hooker and other country blues artists whose collective reemergence had fueled the folk movement of the early ‘60s.
In the early ‘90s, Junior and his band—including his wife, Tanya Rae, whom he’d married in 1988 and enlisted into his band as rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist—relocated to the fertile Austin, Texas, music scene and landed a gig as the house band at the city’s Continental Club.
The Austin Experience, Junior’s followup to Down Home Chrome, is a richly layered set that showcases the combination of clever songwriting, mind-bending fretwork and rich vocals that have become his trademark in the live setting.
www.telarc.com /biography/bios.asp?aid=174   (796 words)

  
 Country Music Article - For Junior Brown, 1996 is very very good to him, December 1996
Brown has a ready explanation from a hotel in Birmingham, Ala., where he is to open in a few hours for ZZ Top.
Brown pays a few odes to the past on "Semi Crazy." The title, written with his former bus driver Ron Avis, is a truck driving song with singer Red Simpson doing a duet.
Brown received glowing reviews, although his music was not exactly Music City mainstream because of the growth of the more commercial sounding country of hat and dance acts.
www.countrystandardtime.com /d/article.asp?fn=juniorbrown.asp   (2080 words)

  
 Junior Brown lets finances slide
Brown started played guitar and singing as a teenager in the late 1960s, and he spent the next 20 years in the classic struggling-musician lifestyle, playing clubs at night, teaching guitar by day and wondering if success would ever arrive.
Brown's push toward the spotlight was assisted by his invention of a new instrument that melded a slide and traditional guitar.
Junior Brown: No. Well, I did make a good living in the late '60s and early '70s when I worked in the clubs because you could make good money playing in bars back then, and the money went a lot further than it does now.
www.bankrate.com /brm/news/investing/20030325a1.asp   (837 words)

  
 Junior Brown - Biography - AOL Music
A singer and demon guitarist whose raucous blend of country and rock & roll helped make him a successful crossover act, Junior Brown was born in 1952 and raised in the backwoods of Kirksville, IN.
After a five-song stopgap EP, 1995's Junior High, Brown returned in 1996 with Semi-Crazy, which continued in the vein established on his previous recordings.
Brown issued his fifth album, Mixed Bag, in 2001.
music.aol.com /artist/junior-brown/59837/biography   (474 words)

  
 TrouserPress.com :: Junior Brown
Brown needs to be seen live (peering out from under a ten-gallon white hat, accompanied by his power-strumming missus, Tanya Rae, a string bassist and a minimalist snare drummer) to be fully appreciated.
On record, Brown's songwriting smarts, clever jokes and voice give his tactile virtuosity the balance needed to make him an all-around entertainer, not a hayseed shredder.
Despite the steady elevation of his national profile — Brown's popularity is greater outside country circles than within them — his studio output has been meager.
www.trouserpress.com /entry.php?a=junior_brown   (326 words)

  
 Ink 19 :: Junior Brown   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Junior Brown is in a weird place in modern country music.
Brown's a man who can whip out a jaw-dropping rendition of Hank Garland's classic "Sugarfoot Rag" and then, without blinking an eye, play an incredible, extended version of Semi-Crazy's "Surf Melody" (which includes selections from such surf classics as "Secret Agent Man," "Walk, Don't Run" and "Pipeline").
Brown's wife, the "lovely Miss Tanya Raye," even performed a tune from her new album, Meet the Mrs.
www.ink19.com /issues_F/99_11/live_ink/023_junior_brown.shtml   (445 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: 12 Shades Of Brown: Music: Junior Brown   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Brown's debut is his freshest, loosest album featuring the borderline novelty numbers "My Baby Don't Dance to Nothing But Ernest Tubb" and "Hillbilly Hula Gal," as well as material in a bluesier mood.
Junior is also a master picker on Guitar and Steel, he plays his famous Guit-Steel and sings up a storm.
Being a big fan of Junior Brown, I own all five of his current albums, but although I like all of them, it's not hard for me to say that this is his best.
www.amazon.ca /12-Shades-Brown-Junior/dp/B000000D76   (1256 words)

  
 Junior Brown
But Junior's voice, both bellowing and crooning, his storytelling lyrics ("Cause yer wanted by the PO-lice and my wife thinks you're dead.") and his rawhide-raw guitar style was raucous country at its spit-finish finest.
Half the entertainment at a Junior Brown concert is Brown and his band, but the other half is his custom-made "Guit Steel" —; a double-necked beast that works as both a guitar and a steel guitar — that Brown picks with unequaled expertise.
Brown now has two highly lauded albums on Curb, Guit with It and 12 Shades of Brown, and a recently released EP, Junior High that features three songs updated for radio play and two new ones.
citypaper.net /articles/090795/article014.shtml   (616 words)

  
 MetroActive Music | Junior Brown
JUNIOR BROWN was thawing out a chicken when he called for this interview.
The instrument--which came to Brown in a dream--allows the country virtuoso to shift from electric to steel without disrupting his songs.
Brown's visual style is also his own, as he is always sharply dressed in suits and his taco-shaped high-brimmed cowboy hat.
www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/05.31.01/jrbrown-0122.html   (578 words)

  
 Ink 19 :: Junior Brown
It is not often that an artist with the talent of Junior Brown can be seen in this neck of the woods, for free even.
Junior has invented his own guitar, one that combines a standard electric with a steel guitar into a single instrument.
Brown is the best guitarist that I have seen live, and his sense of humor in his songs was greatly appreciated by this new fan, especially the country tunes.
www.ink19.com /issues_F/98_06/live_ink/junior_brown_nf.html   (177 words)

  
 Artist Biography - Junior Brown
In Junior's case, playing everywhere from the Grand Ole Opry to rock showcases on the West Coast and his hometown of Austin, Texas, *crossover* is not synonymous with watered-down or light-weight.
Junior's first two albums ("12 Shades of Brown" and "Guit With It") have helped establish him as a crowd favorite from Texas roadhouses to the hippest clubs of New York City and Europe.
In Junior's hands, the guit-steel is an amazing tool, a means to creating some of the hottest, most heartfelt playing heard in years (and in a town like Austin, that's saying something).
www.countrypolitan.com /bio-junior-brown.php   (743 words)

  
 Dawud Muhammad - David Junior Brown
Brown is on death row for the murders of Shelly Diane Chalflinch, and her nine-year-old daughter Christina S. Chalflinch, who were brutally and horribly stabbed to death in their Pinehurst apartment in August 1980.
Brown of these brutal crimes on the basis of the evidence.
Brown was convicted Dec. 20, 1980, in Union County Superior Court for the murders of Shelly Diane Chalflinch and Christina Chalflinch.
ccadp.org /davidjuniorbrown.htm   (993 words)

  
 Country Standard Time: Junior Brown in concert
His flawless fret work on both the guit and the steel of his homemade guitar must certainly have had the guitar-heads in the room scratching their noggins in amazement.
Brown said few words during his show, as he appeared to have the concentration of a mad scientist who just happened to have an adoring throng crowding his lab.
Brown may be a musician who embodies multiple personalities, but each of these distinct natures is well worth the time to get to know.
hometown.aol.com /countryst/juniorbrown3CONCERT.html   (356 words)

  
 Junior Brown: Junior Brown : Rolling Stone
When Junior Brown loped on stage in his familiar white cowboy hat and brown suit, 'Big Red' was waiting for him.
As a stylist, Brown has several personalities -- one for bluesy honky-tonk, one for straight-up country, one for slow weepers, and one to cover his surf jones, and he colors them all with manic glee.
Brown kept the energy flowing by stepping back to allow drummer Buddy Miles a turn in the spotlight.
www.rollingstone.com /artists/juniorbrown/articles/story/5921755/junior_brown   (564 words)

  
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Junior Brown (born 1953) is an American country guitarist and singer from Kirksville, Indiana.
Brown quickly became a local success in Austin, Texas as the house band at the Continental Club.
His debut album was 1993's 12 Shades of Brown; it was followed by Guit with It later that year (1993 in music).
www.tickets--tickets.com /Event/1201/Junior-Brown.html   (768 words)

  
 Junior Brown Official Ticket Source Joe's Pub New York, NY Broadway Tickets by Telecharge.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Junior Brown Official Ticket Source Joe's Pub New York, NY Broadway Tickets by Telecharge.com
"Guit-steel" guitar wizard and multi-Grammy Junior Brown, a veteran of the fertile Austin music scene, is known for his fiery mix of trad country and western, rockabilly, rock and blues.
Show Description, Cast and Tickets for Junior Brown at the Joe's Pub in New York, NY
www.telecharge.com /tickets_Junior_Brown_NY_City_Joes_Pub.aspx   (176 words)

  
 Howard Junior Brown - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Howard Brown, a founder of the National Gay Task Force (now the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force) and a former New York City Public Health Commissioner, helped change the image of gay men and lesbians in the United States by coming out publicly in 1973.
Brown oversaw 22 municipal hospitals, 23 district health centers, 94 child health stations, and 50,000 city employees but needed to hide his sexual identity to keep his job.
In late 1967, Brown received a warning that an investigative reporter planned to expose homosexuals in the administration of Mayor John Lindsay and resigned rather than be forced out.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Howard_Junior_Brown   (840 words)

  
 DAVID JUNIOR BROWN IN THE NEWS
Brown was sentenced to die for the 1980 stabbingdeaths of Shelly Diane Chalflinch, 26, and her 9-year-old daughter, Christina.
Brown, 51, was sentenced to die for the 1980 stabbing
Brown was too intoxicated to be capable of the killings.
www.ccadp.org /davidjuniorbrown-news.htm   (2319 words)

  
 Michael Bishop Records Junior Brown
Bishop tracked Brown and band at Emerald Entertainment’s The Tracking room in Nashville, and used acoustical spaces to help him shape the sound of the band as it was being recorded.
Junior had his amplifier cranking when he solo’ed on his version of Jimi Hendrix's ‘Foxy Lady.’ He was using either a Fender Twin Reverb or Princeton amp, and believe me, whichever it was, it was screaming for help the way he pushed it!"
We had to recut Junior's vocals and we used Beachwood Studios, which is across the street from us.
mixonline.com /mixline/bishop-brown-junior/index.html   (617 words)

  
 Book Junior Brown - Booking Corporate Event, Meeting, Private Party - Your Booking Agent for Junior Brown   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Junior Brown says, "A lot of people tell me they don't like country music, but they like what I'm doing." "I hear that line more than anything else," which is ironic because a couple of licks is all it takes to erase any doubts concerning Junior's stylistic allegiance.
In Junior Brown's case, playing everywhere from the Grand Ole Opry to rock showcases on the West Coast and his hometown of Austin, Texas, "crossover" is not synonymous with watered-down or light-weight.
Following years as Austin's best-kept secret and the town's one must see act for visiting musicians and label heads, Junior Brown and his music have since found an audience far beyond the Lone Star border.
www.grabow.biz /Country/Junior-Brown.htm   (458 words)

  
 Junior Brown, American Graveyard at Antone's in Austin TX
Junior Brown, American Graveyard at Antone's in Austin TX News
Junior Brown, the multi-dimensional Americana/honkytonk artist who dazzled fans in 2004 with his Telarc debut, Down Home Chrome, ratchets up the intensity with Live At The Continental Club: The Austin Experience, a richly layered set that captures the witty songcraft and mind-bending fretwork that have become his trademark in the live setting.
The result is a high-octane rollercoaster ride that careens from one emotional touchstone to another—from the rollicking to the poignant to the humorous and beyond.
www.austin360.com /event/events2/etc/userEventDisplay.jspd?eventStatus=Approved&eventid=155661   (318 words)

  
 Junior Brown / He stays close to his country roots -- despite his vamped-up 'guit-steel' guitar -- and bemoans loss of ...
Junior Brown / He stays close to his country roots -- despite his vamped-up 'guit-steel' guitar -- and bemoans loss of original music on the airwaves
Brown, however, might be accused of making his name on a couple of great gimmicks.
In the early 1980s, Brown dreamed up a double-neck guitar -- a "guit-steel" -- that allows him to play blazing single-note leads and then flip the instrument into a horizontal position and make a separate set of strings weep and moan under the slide of a steel bar.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/05/10/NSGPFPJO3S6.DTL   (826 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: The Planet of Junior Brown: Books: Virginia Hamilton   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Now Junior Brown is a kid who takes music lessons after school every day and his friend Buddy follows him to each of his lessons but he never goes in cause they are completely different characters.
Junior Brown is an obese fl boy who is a an amazing piano player.
Junior isn't naive but he doesn't know much about the world around him.
www.amazon.ca /Planet-Junior-Brown-Virginia-Hamilton/dp/0020435401   (1243 words)

  
 MusicWorld Feature: Junior Brown Makes the Most of a Mixed Bag
Junior's previous album included a psychedelic foray with a former member of the Jimi Hendrix Experience.
Brown's booming baritone flavors every song he stylizes while his blazing guitar licks are becoming legendary.
Junior played in bands, taught guitar, backed country artists on guitar, and finally landed a deal with Curb Records where he has churned out six albums, winning four Grammy nominations.
www.bmi.com /musicworld/features/200201/junior_brown.asp   (488 words)

  
 Free Junior Brown Music Online, Music Downloads, Music Videos and Lyrics - Rhapsody Online
Although Junior Brown is best known for his exceptional country guitar and slide playing, the man can also sing and write songs.
Brown's hearty, beef-eating voice seems to hold these many styles together under his own signature style of writing and playing.
He can switch from a lap steel slide to standard six-string chicken picking because of his custom guitar "Big Red." This "guit-steel," as Brown calls it, is a standard electric six-string guitar with a steel attachment.
www.rhapsody.com /juniorbrown   (241 words)

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