The “#1 House Rocker” Junior Brown is Coming to the Asheville Area
Award winning musician and vocalist set to play at Jack of Hearts Pub
in Weaverville, NC on April 11th at 8pm
Asheville, NC (March 19, 2012) – Junior Brown, internationally famous for his Texas based rockabilly, honky-tonk musical style is coming to Jack of Hearts pub at 10 South Manin Street Weaverville, NC for a rare intimate performance. The show is April 11th at 8pm. Tickets are $20 advance and $25 day of show. Southbound Turnaround is opening the evening. Tickets are available at Harvest Records West Asheville, Jack of the Wood 95 Patton Avenue downtown Asheville, and Jack of Hearts.
Brown’s talents have led major magazines like Musician to herald him as a genius. Life Magazine recognized him as the only contemporary musician included in their “All Time Country Band,” and Guitar Player magazine’s 1994 “Best of…” listings made him their #1 lap steel player, #2 Country Artist, and #3 country album (Guit With It). He will perform with a full band on performance at Jack of Hearts. Brown will play his famous self created “guit steel” which he has played on stages from the Grand Ole Opry to the big screen and during national television appearances.
“A lot of people tell me they don’t like country music, but they like what I am doing,” says Junior Brown. “I hear that line more than anything else.” His music combines the soul of country and the spirit of rock n’ roll.
Those that venture out for the performance can expect to hear a honkytonk singer, traditional styles of country music, roots country, rock and roll and just about everything in between. Brown’s first two albums (12 Shades of Brown and Guit With It) have established him as a crowd pleaser from Texas roadhouses to the trendiest clubs of New York City and Europe.
Jamieson “Junior” Brown was born on June 12th, 1952 and was born in Kirksville, Indiana. In the mid-80’s, Junior taught guitar under Leon McAulliffe, the legendary steel man for Bob Wills’ Texas Playboys at Oklahoma’s Hank Thompson School of Country Music, part of Rogers State College. Brown even passed on a little more music to one student – it was there that Junior met his future wife, Tanya Rae Brown, and the talented woman who would become his rhythm guitarist, backup vocalist, and wife. They married in July of 1988.
A few of his most popular songs include, “The Highway Patrol”, “My Wife Thinks Your Dead”, “A Long Walk Back to San Antone”, and “My Baby Don’t Dance to Nothing But Ernest Tubb”. He is also famous for his videos the “Honky Tonk Song” by George Jones in 1996 and he also won the CMA Country Music Video of the Year award that year for his video, “My Wife Thinks You’re Dead”. Brown’s music has been showcased on various TV shows and movie soundtracks, including Me, Myself and Irene, SpongeBob SquarePants and the 2005 Dukes of Hazzard remake, in which he also played the narrator.
Additional details on Brown are available at www.juniorbrown.com. Show details are available at www.jackofheartspub.com