Junior Brown

Moes Alley presents country and rockabilly guitar legend Junior Brown with special guest Preacher Boy! Tuesday, August 13thDoors: 7pm / Show: 8pm$40 in advance / $45 day of the show21+JUNIOR BROWNWith his unique voice, more unique song writing, and even more unique double necked Guit-Steel guitar, there has absolutely never been ANYONE like Junior Brown. Hes an American Original. Born in 1952 in Cottonwood, Arizona, Junior Brown showed an affinity for music at an early age when the family moved to a rural area of Indiana near Kirksville. In the following years, Junior began to experience Country music and remembers it as growing up out of the ground like the crops it was everywhere; coming out of cars, houses, gas stations and stores like the soundtrack of a story, but Country music programs on TV hadnt really come along much yet; not until the late fifties. Discovering a guitar in his grandparents attic, he spent the next several years woodshedding with records and the radio. Junior was also able to tap into music he couldnt hear at home which older, college aged kids were listening to. This was possible due to his fathers employment at small campuses throughout the next decade as the family moved twice again. As a young boy he was able to experience the thrill of performing before live audiences, at parties, school functions even singing and playing guitar for five thousand Boy Scouts at an Andrews Air Force Base jamboree; then while still a teenager, getting the chance to sit in with Rock and Roll pioneer, Bo Diddley. Armed with this broad spectrum of influences, he began to develop a storehouse of musical chops.PREACHER BOYPreacher Boy mines the dark edges of Contemporary Blues and Americana with his signature raspy voice, virtuoso National slide guitar playing, and darkly poetic lyrics. From his genre-bending debut on Blind Pig Records to his latest album on Coast Road Recordshis 13th overallthis relentlessly pioneering artist continues to both honor and extend the country blues traditions that inspire him, while infusing his sound with influences ranging from punk rock to political folk. Preacher Boy helped create, define, and advance alternative blues as a genre that also spawned artists ranging from Chris Whitley and Alvin Youngblood Hart to the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and G. Love. Faster and Louder has called him the godfather of alt. blues. Of hIs boot-pounding live performances, Santa Cruzs Good Times had this to say: As he beats his long leather boot, four to the floor, his National steel guitar slides and spits a devious storm of gothic Americana and gritty country blues. Melody Maker described his sound as: Country blues that marry Nick Cave, Robert Johnson, Woody Guthrie and Tom Waits, and legendary music publication MOJO declared that, Preacher Boy is a songwriter of startling originality.