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Jamieson "Junior" Brown (b. June 12 1952, Kirksville, Indiana) is an American country music|country guitarist and singer from Cottonwood, Arizona.
Biography
He first learned to play piano from his father "before I could talk". His music career began in the 1960s, and he worked through that decade and the next developing his astonishing guitar skills. By the mid-1980s he was teaching guitar at the Hank Thompson (music)|Hank Thompson School of Country Music at Rogers State University, in Claremore, Oklahoma.
In 1985 in music|1985 Junior invented a double-necked guitar, with some assistance from Michael Stevens. Junior called the instrument his "guit-steel". When performing, Junior plays the guitar by standing behind it, while it rests on a small podium/music stand. The top neck on the guit-steel is a traditional 6-string guitar, while the lower neck is a full-size lapsteel|lapsteel guitar for slide playing. Brown has two guit-steels for recording and live work.
The original instrument, dubbed "Old Yeller", has as its standard 6-string guitar portion the neck and pickups from Brown's previous stage guitar, a Fender Bullet. The second guit-steel, named "Big Red", has a neck laser-copied from the Bullet neck, but in addition to electric guitar pickups, both the standard and lapsteel necks use an identical Sho-Bud lapst... read all
Greg Brown And Bo Ramsey Standing
10 24 2006 Junior Brown
