Junior Brown can flat out play.
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There are not a lot of people on the planet earth that can sing and play a lap steel (guit-steel) at the same time. And he’s not just playing vibrato when he is singing, he’s playing licks.
About ten years ago, I got to see Junior Brown in a small bar in Hoboken, called Maxwells.
The back room, where the musicians play, is just a small empty room with a little stage up front. There isn't even a stage door, so the whole band has to push through the crowd to get up there.
My friends and I stood in the front row center. I got to watch Junior play for about two hours, with my nose about a foot from his hands. It was mesmerizing. He kicks some serious ass on that guit-steel.
We were standing next to some guy who didn't know Junior's music, but was a professional guitarist and was there because he heard people talk about Junior's guitar genius. He was drop-jawed, shaking his head in disbelief, for the whole show. Afterwards, he said he saw things in his playing that he didn't even think were possible.