Artist: Greg Brown
Genre(s):
Folk
Discography:
The Evening Call
Year: 2006
Tracks: 12
In the Hills of California CD2
Year: 2004
Tracks: 16
In the Hills of California CD1
Year: 2004
Tracks: 16
Milk of the Moon
Year: 2002
Tracks: 12
Covenant
Year: 2000
Tracks: 11
Slant 6 Mind
Year: 1997
Tracks: 13
The Live One
Year: 1995
Tracks: 12
The Poet Game
Year: 1994
Tracks: 12
Dream Cafe
Year: 1992
Tracks: 12
With his sandpaper-coarse only sensitive baritone horn, Greg Brown offers stabbing insights into the realities and foibles of modern life tinged with a hefty dose of coarse sense. He is the boy of an electrical guitar-playing mother and a Pentecostal sermoniser and was raised hearing to gospel music in rural Iowa. He began vocalizing around years 18 in New York where he ran hootenannies at Gerdes Folk City. A year later he began writing for Buck Ram (of Platters renown) and his production company. After that he worked with a band for a few years and eventually returned to Iowa to hook up with. There, he worked for the Iowa Arts Council where he performed for children, mentally challenged people and hospital patients; he too played in many Midwestern coffeehouses and clubs. From in that location he worked with Garrison Keillor on the Prairie Home Companion live radiocommunication programme. It was an exciting menses for Brown, wHO enjoyed performing with a wide of the mark variety of musicians.
Brown had founded his have criminal record label, Red House, a few eld back, and had issued the albums 44 & 66 and Hawkeye State Waltz, only had turned over control to Bob Feldman to concentrate on written material and playing. He recorded his number one widely uncommitted album, In the Dark With You, in 1985 to widespread critical clap. The next twelvemonth, he released Songs of Innocence and Experience, comprised of William Blake's poetry set to euphony and featuring Beausoleil founder Michael Doucet on fiddle. With his own songwriting, Brown expresses many moods in a sort of styles and with brilliant imagery. Many of his songs tell stories, both humourous and sad. In 1993, he and East Coast tribe singer Bill Morrissey teamed up to phonograph record the tradition-based Friend of Mine. In addition to transcription kinfolk albums for adults, Brown has also recorded an healthy children's album, Bath Blues, featuring songs he wrote in junction with elementary schooltime students. Brown's profile increased through the '90s with such acclaimed albums as Dream Cafe (1992), Poet Game (1994), Further In (1996), and Slant 6 Mind (1997). Covenant followed trio years by and by.
