Junior Brown

Junior Brown: Down Home Chrome

by C. Michael Bailey
August 17, 2004

It would be very easy to dismiss Junior Brown as a retro ( really retro ) country and western act. That is if he did not have the perfect Ernest Tubb-baritone voice and play a hybrid instrument called a “git-steel." The latter is the musician's true claim to fame, a combination of an electric guitar and an eight-string lap steel guitar that he plays on a stand in front of his vocals microphone. Actually, the entire package that ...