About Greg Brown (folk musician)
Gregory Dane Brown (born July 2, 1949) is an American folk singer-songwriter and guitarist from Iowa. == 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." Brown spent several years traveling with a band before returning to Iowa, where he performed live and pursued his songwriting career. == Career == During the 1980s Brown toured and had recurring performances on A Prairie Home Companion. Brown self-published two albums, 44 & 66 and The Iowa Waltz. Brown then became the first recording artist on Red House Records, founded by Bob Feldman and Susan Ode after producing a sold-out concert at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1990. In 1986, he released an album called Songs of Innocence and of Experience based on poems by William Blake. His album One Big Town (1989) won an Indie Award from the National Association of Independent Record Distributors and marked the beginning of Brown's long collaboration with Iowa guitarist Bo Ramsey. The Poet Game (1994), his tenth studio album, saw significant international radio play (charting on AAA and topping The Gavin Report's Americana chart), and received a NAIRD Indie award for singer-songwriter Album of the Year. His 1996 album Further In received a four-star review from Rolling Stone, which described it as "a contemplative gem" and a "masterwork".
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