Jamieson "Junior" Brown (born June 12, 1952) is an American country guitarist and singer. He has released 12 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.
Life and career Brown was born in Cottonwood, Arizona; at an early age, his family moved to Kirksville, Indiana. He first learned to play piano from his father (Samuel Emmons Brown Jr.) "before I could talk". His music career began in the 1960s, and he worked through that decade and the next singing and playing pedal steel and guitar for groups such as the Last Mile Ramblers, Dusty Drapes and the Dusters, Billy Spears, and Asleep at the Wheel while developing his guitar skills. In the early 1980s, he appeared on stage with Rank and File as the replacement for Alejandro Escovedo, but he did not feature on any recordings by that band. By the mid-1980s, Brown was teaching guitar at the Hank Thompson School of Country Music at Rogers State University in Claremore, Oklahoma. In 1985, Brown created a new type of double-neck guitar, with some assistance from Michael Stevens...
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