12 Shades of Brown

by Junior Brown

12 Shades of Brown cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 1990
  • Label: Demon Records
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 34:23
  • Community rating: 3.29/5 from 2 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Wielding his self-invented 'guit-steel', Junior Brown introduces his astonishing instrumental dexterity and deep baritone twang. The independent debut champions a purely traditionalist honky-tonk sound, effortlessly reviving classic country swing long before his mainstream breakthrough.

Genres

Descriptors: rhythmic

Tracklist

  1. My Baby Don't Dance To Nothing But Ernest Tubb (2:12)
  2. Baby Let The Bad Times Be (2:52)
  3. Freeborn Man (4:25)
  4. They Don't Choose To Live That Way (2:50)
  5. Too Many Nights In A Roadhouse (2:41)
  6. Hillbilly Hula Gal (2:28)
  7. A Way To Survive (3:32)
  8. Broke Down South Of Dallas (2:29)
  9. What's Left Just Won't Go Right (2:24)
  10. Moan All Night Long (2:24)
  11. Coconut Island (2:17)
  12. Don't Sell The Farm (3:44)

Credits

  • Tanya Rae Brown - acoustic guitar
  • Spencer Starnes - double bass [upright]
  • Erik Hokkanen - fiddle, rhythm guitar [acoustic]
  • Michael Ballew - rhythm guitar [acoustic]
  • Donny Dolan - snare [drum]

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