Junior Brown Album Review:
Junior Kills at 2006-01-20
This CD smokes and is an absolute joy to listen to--a virtual eargasam! Juniors guit-steel playing is a cross between Dick Dale, Stevie Ray Vaughn and a roto-tiller on steroids. The recording is crystal clear and makes it seem as though you are at the Continental Club with the other Junior music addicts.
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Yee-Ha! at 2005-12-28
This CD didnt disappoint me - its great music and its a lot of fun to listen to. Ive only had it a few days, but I think this is going to become my favorite Junior CD.The sound quality is stellar too. It was recorded directly to DSD at the Continental Club, and I must say that its the best live recording Ive ever heard. Just what youd expect from the folks at Telarc.
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Junior Brown Live is an alopated, psychotronic, swampadelic experience! at 2006-03-23
The Man of Guit-Steel does it again. I saw him oncein Virginia Beahc, VA at the Naval Base in an outdoorfree show! I would have paid hundreds, though. He andhis band are excellent and he is very funny and enter-taining as well, Get that hippie off stage. No way!
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Better to see him live than to listen to this live disc..... at 2006-07-25
I have seen Junior Brown live a few times and I am always amazed at his guitar prowess, however I am very disappointed in this particular release:1-First of all its only 52 min. long. A cd has about approximately 79 minutes of available space, and with Juniors songs being relatively short, there could have been 25 minutes more music on here.2-The set list isnt the best.....there are MANY definitive Junior tracks which dont show up here at all.3-Aside from the last track (Rock and Roll Guitar Medley) the performance here is rather lifeless, the singing sounds tired and strictly by the numbers....no flash, electricity or energy Junior usually provides in his LIVE shows...on this, he tends to simply phone it in.I really love Junior Brown and his music/guitar abilities, but this disc doesnt not reflect his ability as a performer, just that of a guitar picker.
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Another Junior chapter..... at 2005-11-21
Everytime I listen to Junior Brown, my teeth go buck! I picked up this release for the collection and have already listened to it several times over the last few days. Right now I swear I would be able to eat corn on the cob through a picket fence. A true must for the Junior Brown listener. Most of all get out and see him when he comes to play in your town. I dont know about the record release business, but why couldnt this have been as long as one of Juniors concerts?


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Junior Brown the multi-dimensional Americana/honkytonk artist who dazzled fans in 2004 with his Telarc debut iDown Home Chrome ratchets up the intensity with iLive at the Continental Club: The Austin Experience a richly layered set that captures the witty songcraft and mind-bending fretwork that have become his trademark in the live setting.

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Junior Brown, a great traditionalist, does it again. And again, and again... at 2006-03-23
Jamieson Brown, Jr., better known by his stage name,Junior Brown is a fantastic guitarist, er, ah, makethat Guit-Steelist, who keeps coming out with verygood to great LPs (and one EP, Junior Brown, ***).Nine releases now and not an even close to being bador average one. Pick Up On It!
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For those of you longing for staunch traditionalism... at 2005-06-08
Nobody but nobody nowadays does traditional country better than Junior Brown. You cant even call his music contemporary traditionalism (i.e., Alan Jackson, George Strait, etc.). Browns music harks back to the day of Hank Williams, Ernest Tubb (his biggest influence, immortalized in My Baby Dont Dance to Nothin But Ernest Tubb), and Jimmie Rogers. Listen to Too Many Nights in a Roadhouse and try NOT to think of the guys who started this whole thing we call country music. All of it delivered in Browns mellow baritone. They say Chet Atkins was the kind of guitar player who either made you wanna play guitar or quit playing. Brown is that type of guitarist as well. His patented guit-steel instrument is inspired and unmistakable (it came to him in a dream, he once said), and his playing will raise the hairs on the back of your neck. Even people with absolutely no interest in instrumentals will be floored by Sugar Foot Rag (unfortunately, the only instrumental on here). And the hillbilly/blues licks of Freeborn Man will make you swoon. And though few of these songs are deep and meaningful (Brown isnt that kind of artist), theres a lot of honesty and wit. My Wife Thinks Youre Dead is absolutely hilarious, delivered in its stoic manner, and Joe the Singing Janitor roots for the underdogs and those behind the scenes (I cant carry a tune in a bucket/But I carry that bucket with pride).Having spent most of his career flying underneath radios radar (despite the fact that Highway Patrol remains a radio staple to this day), Junior Brown isnt about to give in. He continues to make country music as honest and as traditional as electric instruments allow. His voice in unmistakable, his picking is unbelievable, and his style is irrisistable. GREATEST HITS may not be the best anthology of his music you could purchase, but its Junior Brown, so whos complaining?


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Junior Brown is a singer/steel guitar player who blends rock and roll and country.

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Rippin 8-string steel at 2004-12-24
On his seventh solo album, Junior Brown augments his signature truck-driving, honky-tonk twang with cool lounge-lizard jazz guitar (You Inspire Me), soulful Albert King-style string bending (Monkey Wrench Blues), and even occasional horns. But the highlight is Browns Guit-Steel -- a custom doubleneck hybrid of Tele and lap steel -- which lets him jump mid-song between 6-string chicken pickin and whining 8-string tone-bar licks. His steel playing is remarkable: Whether comping Western swing chords, plucking cry-in-your-beer country fills, or whipping out stuttering double-stops, Brown nails his lines with righteous intonation and a fat, swooping tone. As always, he delivers his tongue-in-cheek lyrics in a resonant baritone, his Guit-Steel timbres are unfettered with digital processing, and his solos have a live, reckless edge.
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Jamieson Brown, Jr. back in action and back to the Country - Yee-Haw! at 2006-03-23
In recent past efforts, Brown on Long Way Home andothers tried his hand at Rock, Jazz, Dixie, and evenBlues. It turned out well, too. But aside from theHendix cover weve all been waiting for, Brown goesback to the corn stalks and gives us what weve beenmissing - REAL COUNTRY! Thanks, brudder! Mahalo andAloha, for now (til next review)!
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Oh My God at 2005-08-20
When it comes to Junior Brown, what can one say, except Oh my God...?
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The Junior Brown Express at 2005-08-01
If youre already a fan of the awe-inspiring Junior Brown and his guit-steel ways, this album will not let you down. There are a lot of good cuts on this and its on auto-pilot from start to finish in my rig! P.S. Go see J.B. play live, itll change your life!
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Down Home Corn at 2005-05-10
Ive been a Junior Brown fan since the earlier days. Not only is he a superb guitarist, he is a clever and gifted songwriter whose facility with words sometimes leads him to write some of the most maudlin and corny yet literate country songs around.On Down Home Chrome, Brown shines once again with his guit-steel virtuosity, but succumbs to writing some of the corniest songs Ive heard in a long time. Like bad puns, some of the lyrics can really make a fan cringe.Whats good? I like The Bridge Washed Out, the swinging Hill Country Hot Rod Man, the traditional Lets Go Back, the jazzy You Inspire Me, a competent cover of Hendrix Foxy Lady, and the obligatory bout with the blues, Monkey Wrench Blues.The corniest of the bunch are Little Rivi-Airhead, Jimmy Jones, Two Rons Dont Make A Right, and Are You Just Cuttin Up?.Junior Browns voice fits his style well and he seems best when playing either traditional style country or the blues. However, on Down Home Chrome there is not much of either. But he does have an excellent band so the music alone keeps this CD from falling below three stars.Hard-core Junior Brown fans will like this, but some casual fans may drift away in dismay if he continues along his cornball path. But I look at it this way. Corniness is part of his musical persona, there were hints of it from the beginning and its not going to suddenly disappear. So if the down home corn makes you cringe, try to ignore that and focus on what attracted you to Browns music in the first place. The basic Brown formulas and style are still intact.


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If you think Junior had a tendency toward being pretty weird when he was being normal wait til you hear him being weird. With its overabundance of 60s blues-rock guitar gimmicks his awkwardly Xeroxed Hendrix vocals on Foxy Lady the lounge schlock of You Inspire Me a pun-filled story song (Two Rons Dont Make It Right) thats absurd even by his usual standards and a rampant misogyny that grows tedious even if its meant to be funny this album has its share of lapses. But when the man just bears down and plays t right on his guit-steel as he does on Hill Country Hot Rod Man and the Chicago-style Monkey Wrench Blues he wipes the slate clean again. Though perhaps a couple notches below his best work thisll still satisfy Browns established fans. John Morthland

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jammin at 2002-06-29
This music is like dwight yoakum crossed with beck and kirk hammett thrown in. Great stuff, and cagey bea is an awesome song. I got this disc because I heard cagey bea somewhere, and now I cant quit listening to it. Great! Get it!
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Junior is a genius at 2001-09-26
Junior is an amazing artist and is to be commended on stretching out and giving his listening audience something to sink their teeth into. BRAVO! WARNING: This C/D is not recommended for anyone with an IQ of less than 120.
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Really 3.5 stars, but not a bad effort. But Junior... at 2006-03-23
Pls. get a shave. Rick Nielsen of my other favorite band, Cheap Trick didnt look good with a beard/goatee either! Truely this is a mixed bag, but pushing the envleope willdo that. Pretty good sixth effort. Your ****average is still intact!
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title holds true at 2004-05-30
I love junior brown. however this cd is truely a mixed bag.lets all hope his soon to be released down home chrome will see a return to form.
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Junior still rocks at 2002-09-08
Anyone notice that Juniors picture on the front of Mixed Bag is very similar to Richie Havens picture on the cover of his Mixed Bag album? More than a coincidence? Anybody have any knowledge as to if Junior did this on purpose? I bet he did!His guit-steel guitar combines 50s, Hendrix and pedal steel sounds to make Junior unique and refreshing. I always include Junior when I want to hear great guitar work and great blues.


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Though the title could as easily apply to most of Browns output IMixed Bag understates the eclecticism of this radical traditionalists first release in almost three years. For fans of his pyrotechnic picking on his double-necked guit-steel theres an album-opening assault on Jerry Reeds Guitar Man as well as supercharged romps through Catfish and Collard Greens and Wild Goose Chase. While the musical rewards of such virtuosic displays may wear thin quickly the balladry of Running with the Wind and Our First Bluebonnet Spring strikes a richer deeper vein while the patented wordplay of Cagey Bea (about a Russian spy) and Little Town Square attests to Browns distinctive songwriting. The biggest stretch is the horn-laden Dixieland of Riverboat Shuffle before the musicianship of veteran stalwarts such as pianist Hargus Pig Robbins and drummer Buddy Harman returns the collection full-circle to classic country. Don McLeese