Junior remains a master in 2021 !!! What a musician above all else ! Well maybe a entertainer too !!! A real legend, God bless him and his family! Much respect Sir ….
Never been a big fan of country. As I've grown older. I appreciate it all except opera. Junior Brown has had a big impact on that. His ability to play guitar I strive to play. Junior Brown you are amazing.
By the late '80s, Brown, by then living in Austin, was also beginning to attract attention because of his Guit-steel, a unique and original hybrid of six-string electric and lap steel, whose double necks were fused into a single body. That mutant instrument first came to Brown in 1980 (appropriately, in a dream) and was finally built by Austin luthier Michael Stevens in 1985.
@@horsluva0758 Johnny Winter was an excellent blues guitarist. He had a brother (both of whom were straight up albinos) that achieved some fame; Edgar Winter.. I'm not positive but I think they were twins. I do know they were both albinos or are not sure on their lifespan either.
I first heard Junior on the radio and didn't realize it was him hitting all those licks, I was really impressed. When i did realize it was only him doing it by himself i was blown away! Then i saw him on tv and saw what he was playing i was in total awe. Never seen anyone like him and don't think i ever will again. Great man and greater music!!!!
For his expansive character, *Junior Brown* reminds me of guitarist *Roy Clark* . Greetings. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UkcdJTcayPU.html *GUITAR BOOGIE* Surf Version in the style of *Arthur Smith*
Let's say that country music is very varied: sometimes it is very popular, and sometimes a little less. Greetings. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uWPW1wxHnWA.html *DEEP IN THE HEART OF TEXAS* Country Guitar in the style of *Duane Eddy*
I got to see Junior Brown at the Gypsie tea room near Dallas while visiting my friend in Texas over 25 years ago and I had never heard of him, he’s one of a kind.
By the late '80s, Brown, by then living in Austin, was also beginning to attract attention because of his Guit-steel, a unique and original hybrid of six-string electric and lap steel, whose double necks were fused into a single body. That mutant instrument first came to Brown in 1980 (appropriately, in a dream) and was finally built by Austin luthier Michael Stevens in 1985. Junior Brown's Dual Purpose Junior is Borned 1954 GROWING up in Annapolis, Guit-steel innovator and string virtuoso Junior Brown came of age in a region rife with trailblazing country and rock guitarists -- Roy Clark, Link Wray, Roy Buchanan, Danny Gatton. Too bad he was too young to appreciate them. "My dad was a teacher and he moved around quite a bit," Brown says from his current Oklahoma home. "We lived in Annapolis from '58 to '65, then we moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico." By then, Brown had picked up his first guitar, at age 7. "I found one in my grandparents' attic, a real old guitar, didn't have all the strings," he recalls. "The first one I got was a Christmas present, a Sears Silvertone Acoustic." Guitar was Junior Brown's second instrument. His father, Samuel Emmons Brown Jr., a musicologist and professor at St. John's College, steered Junior (then Jamieson) to piano at age 4, but Brown never took to that instrument, partly because he couldn't take it with him when he disappeared into his room for hours at a time. There, he explored folk, blues and early country recordings from the record collection of John Gottlieb, one of his father's students. Gottlieb, an inspired amateur, would be Junior Brown's first and only instructor -- an informal one, at that. "There was a few of us young kids, and we'd wake him up after a long binge and he'd show us a few chords," Brown says fondly. "After that, I was self-taught." As for the Capital region as a hotbed for guitar icons, Brown says he was "too young to see it as any kind of a scene. But every time someone had an electric guitar, it was a really big deal back then. You'd go over to someone's house to see their dad's electric guitar, or maybe their big brother might have one. It was a very special thing." That Brown would become a very special player was not immediately evident. In Santa Fe, he put together his first band, Harmonious Discord, at age 13 and played the teen club circuit, following the mid-'60s shift from surf music to psychedelic rock in his next band, Humble Harvey. Dropping out of high school (in his junior year), Brown started playing honky-tonk in local (and later regional) bars, working as a sideman for numerous acts, occasionally singing, never writing. Not surprisingly, Brown has conflicted memories of that era. On the one hand, he was in music. "It was the only thing I really enjoyed," he says. "I looked up to the guys who could make a living at it. You don't think about the life, you just do what you have to do for people. There never was any choice to it." On the other hand, he was in music. "I was very bitter for many years because I didn't do anything but play in club bands," Brown adds. "I thought, 'I'm going to spend the rest of my life doing this in bars, playing for people who don't appreciate the music, learning songs that I don't particularly like.' It was dismal in the early '80s: Clubs started drying up and people got their entertainment elsewhere and a million bands showed up to undercut you. It didn't matter how good you were, they just treated you like a jukebox. "It was a very tough time. That's when I started supplementing my income by teaching a little bit. Thank God I was able to put a band together and get the original songs out there, which led to a record deal. I've been playing for first-rate audiences ever since then." In the early '80s, Brown was building a reputation as a string whiz on both electric guitar and steel, "though I didn't get really serious about steel until 1972," he says. He landed a job at the Hank Thompson School of Country Music at Rogers State University in Calremore, Okla., where he worked with Leon McAuliffe, the great steel player with Bob Wills's Texas Playboys. Better yet, he took on a guitar student who in 1988 became Mrs. Brown; Tanya Rae remains his rhythm guitarist, business manager and inspiration. "I never could get a group together until I met Tanya Rae and really got serious about it," Brown says.
Only recently discovered this guy and omg he is superb and that's an understatement! He plays like he has 10 fingers on each hand one of the best pickers ever done with his hybrid right hand reminds me of Danny Gatton another great picker and so much more junior brown is one of the best guitarists I've seen! Very talented it's quite obvious he has been playing a long time he has mad skills great tone so the question is why isn't this guy well known? Never hear any of his music on the radio he's a modern day srv only better got to see this guy live!
Austin had this, SRV and much more on a daily basis. 7 days a week. We were very lucky; dang I miss it! Bound to be some of that scene left but much has been priced out of existence. Just another money-grubbing town, now. Junior had a residency at the Continental Club. Played every week for a number of years. Currently has a weekly utube live show.
Let's not overlook Junior's wife keepin up with those guys back there. She's keepin right up with the rhythm while those guys are runnin and rippin away with each other. She ain't too bad herself.
Tanya Rae and Junior were at the Southgate house and brought down the house!!! I thought that the guitar was a gimmick until he started to play. He is as fine of a performer as I have ever seen. Hopefully I will get the opportunity to see him again now that we are getting back to live shows...
I am so glad I saw JB at Jim Porter's in Louisville back in 2012. His show, as always, was just superb. This guy is amazing. Thanks for sharing this video.
I know this is an older video but I saw Junior Brown about 5 to 6 years ago in Maine and I saw Ricky Skaggs about 12 to 15 years ago in Concord NH. Both were great acts!
Crowds go nuts for his show all ways standing ovations I'm tired after listening to just a few songs how he does it again and again I wish I had a jar of his sand on hand
that's a terrific 13-minute surf rock jam and Medley at the end! The version of Sugarfoot Rag here is actually a little tamer than usual, probably because he's playing with Ricky Skaggs, but on the recorded version or in his own live shows he usually sprinkles Hendrix licks and quotes liberally throughout.
i see mark collie and all i cna think about is the seagal film FIRE DOWN BELOW.. and brent mason being up there is awesome.. what a picker..just mad skills. what a lineup period... guitar heaven..
When I was in High School in the late 90's the video for Junior Brown's Highway Patrol was on CMT and TNN everyday, what seemed like every hour or so. My Wife Thinks You're Dead was also in high rotation I believe. Even back then I was amazed by this guy's abilities, but I kinda thought he was some sort of novelty act who played joke music. I was just a teenager then, so basically an idiot. I know better now...I think.
+David McCarthy Yeah, I wonder how many people know that's is wife. She's pretty. Probably does most of the cooking too when she can, cuz she wants to.
I always knew that was his wife....I still think Junior Brown must spend most of his time with the guitar, She is a great looking woman, they never show her much.
