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Gregory Dane Brown (born July 2, 1949) is an American folk singer-songwriter and guitarist from Iowa. [1] Early life. Brown was born into a musical family, and his father was a Pentecostal minister. He grew up in the Hacklebarney region of southwestern Iowa, which he describes as "hill country." [2] .
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Greg Brown, Iowa’s contribution to folk music mythology, reflects before retirement(Little Village, Feb. 16, 2023) Freak Flag. Greg's Official Web Site: gregbrownmusic.org. GregBrownMusic Discussion Group at groups.io [replaced GBrown-L Yahoo group in Oct. 2019] Biography. News.
Jun 20, 2024 · Iowa folk music icon Greg Brown is living that retired life. After playing his farewell retirement concert in 2023, he’s returned with a new book: Ring Around The Moon: A Songbook, which highlights a song selection personally picked by the songwriter himself, as well as family photos, personal anecdotes and self-penned drawings.
Jun 30, 2024 · Iowa folk-singer Greg Brown recently released an autobiographical retrospective filled with short essays of recollections and musings, along with a scrapbook’s worth of photos, plus sheet music, lyrics and chords for 40 of Brown’s songs.
Greg Brown. American artist whose traditional folk songwriting is infused with a distinctive Midwestern sensibility. Read Full Biography. STREAM OR BUY: Active. 1960s - 2020s. Born. July 2, 1949 in Fairfield, IA. Genre.
Feb 22, 2023 · The term roots is often used to describe unadorned country and folk music — though it is sometimes invoked without much thought about its deeper, more resonant connotations. But by examining the life of Iowa’s most well-known purveyor of this tradition, Greg Brown, we can better understand how it is ingrained in history, culture and family.
May 11, 2021 · Its 11 songs are at once sly and sincere, pure, casual, American folk music that Brown says was recorded in the “basement of a building that has since been torn down.” There are moments on The Iowa Waltz that foreshadow what Brown’s voice was to become, but mostly it’s a young man’s voice trying out an oracle’s wisdom.