Happy 66th birthday, Junior Brown.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Junior Brown



Brown with his guit-steel at Antone's in Austin, Texas, 2006

Website: www.juniorbrown.com

Jamieson "Junior" Brown (born June 12, 1952) is an American country guitarist and singer. He has released ten studio albums in his career, and has charted twice on the Billboard country singles charts. Brown's signature instrument is the "guit-steel" double neck guitar, a hybrid of electric guitar and lap steel guitar.
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Life and career
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In 1985, Brown created a new type of double-neck guitar, with some assistance from Michael Stevens. Brown called the instrument his "guit-steel". When performing, Brown plays the guitar by standing behind it, while it rests on a small music stand. The top neck on the guit-steel is a traditional six-string guitar, while the lower neck is a full-size lap steel guitar for slide playing. Brown has two guit-steels for recording and live work. The original instrument, dubbed "Old Yeller", has as its standard six-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 lap-steel necks use identical Sho-Bud lap-steel pickups.
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And, because Brian Wilson's birthday is coming up next week:

Yes, I'll make note of that one.

[ghostsinthemachine]

1. An amazing player, singer

In that old Bob Wills kind of country. That deep voice, coupled with amazing double neck guitar work is as good as it gets. His wife, who is his band, is a mean picker too.

He doesn't like people smoking weed near the stage however. Very vocal about that.