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10/28/2023

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10/14/2023

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09/22/2023

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09/14/2023

We ❤️JrB

With his unique voice, more unique song writing, and even more unique double necked “Guit-Steel” guitar, there has absolutely never been ANYONE like Junior Brown! He’s an American Original. A singer and guitarist whose raucous blend of country and rock & roll helped make him a success! And YOU can see him live, onstage in the Ellis Theater Philly at Marty Stuart's Congress of Country Music on September 30, 2023!

Junior Brown was raised in the backwoods of Kirksville, IN. He first learned to play the piano from his father, and was exposed to country through radio and TV, becoming a fan of Ernest Tubb's music and television program.

After honing his guitar skills in relative anonymity throughout the '70s, Brown became an instructor at the Hank Thompson School of Country Music, an affiliate of Rogers State College in Oklahoma.

A dream prompted him to set about creating an instrument fusing a six-string guitar with its steel counterpart. Contacting guitar maker Michael Stevens in 1985, he developed the "guit-steel," a double-necked guitar combining the standard instrument with the steel. A decade later, the two men reunited to update the "guit-steel," and Brown's cherry axe, "Big Red," was born.

After moving to Austin, TX, Brown and his group became the house band at the city's Continental Club, where strong word-of-mouth eventually earned them a record deal. He made his long-awaited album debut in 1993 with “12 Shades of Brown”, which featured a tribute to his biggest influence, "My Baby Don't Dance to Nothing but Ernest Tubb." It also showcased his often-stunning instrumental work, and blended Western swing, honky-tonk, and electrified Bakersfield country.

He later released two albums on the TelArc label. There were several Grammy nods, a CMA award for “My Wife Thinks You’re Dead”, movie and repeated TV appearances like Letterman, Conan, Saturday Night Live, Austin City Limits, SpongeBob, X Files, Dukes of Hazzard, Me Myself and Irene, Trespass, Still Breathing, Blue Collar Comedy Tour 1 and 2, and more recently, Better Call Saul. And there were the Ad-Campaigns; The Gap, Lee Jeans and Lipton Tea.

As Junior became more well known, he began to collaborate on projects with some of his heroes. These include a duet with Ralph Stanley for which Junior received a Bluegrass Music Association Award, a duet and video with Hank Thompson, as well as duets with video and record collaborations with the Beach Boys, George Jones, Leon McAuliffe, Ray Price, Leona Williams, Lynn Morris, Lloyd Green and Doc Watson. He even played guitar for Bob Wills’ Texas Playboys in a radio commercial.

For more information or to purchase tickets, please visit our website:
https://www.congressofcountrymusic.org/events/philly-hillbilly-rockin-round-up-featuring-junior-brown/

08/23/2023

Lots of rain bring on the shrooms

08/08/2023

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08/04/2023

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08/04/2023

This SPK 280 was disassembled and rebuilt from the ground up. Ready to make you a bundle of moolah!