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Greg Brown
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Capt. Greg Brown will be your host and guide on an Everglades Airboat Tour of a lifetime. Your "Flight" will allow you to see nature at its purest in the unspoiled habitat of the Beautiful Florida Everglades National Park. This unspoiled River of Grass, sawgrass scattered with tree islands, makes up most of the interior of the Florida Everglades. The open marshes are flooded during the summer, rainy season, but are dryer in the late winter and spring. Here and there over the 'glades are ponds and deeper channels that hold permanent water. The smaller pools are often refered to as "gator holes" and the larger drainage channels are called "sloughs".
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Greg Brown is the son of a preacher man (Pentecostal), and maybe that's the source of his uncanny charisma. Over three decades on the road and two in the recording studio, Brown has developed into the essential Midwestern songwriter, with a feel for the varieties of love and for what makes people and communities hang together. He's a compelling performer, aware that in folk music less is usually more and the intimate musical detail communicates as well as the grand gesture. Pieta Brown is Greg Brown's daughter. She's very far from a Greg Brown clone, but charisma and stage presence definitely run in the family. Visit Pieta's website at http://www.pietabrown.com/.
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Folk contemporaries Bill Morrissey and Greg Brown have crafted ì careers out of deep, unique voices and penetrating songwriting ì skills. But with the exception of Brown's tribute to Morrissey, ì "Fishing With Bill," all of the songs here are covers that ì they've played together in the past for their own amusement. The ì material touches upon blues (Willie Dixon's "Little Red ì Rooster"), rock (the Rolling Stones' "You Can't Always Get What ì You Want"), country (Hank Williams's "I'll Never Get Out of This ì World Alive"), folk (Ferron's "Ain't Life a Brook"), and ì traditional tunes ("He Was a Friend of Mine"). Both performers ì sing and play acoustic guitar, Morrissey adds slide guitar and ì harmonica, and rhythm players are featured on a few tunes. The ì ambiance is loose throughout.
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With his sandpaper-coarse but sensitive baritone, Greg Brown offers keen insights into the realities and foibles of modern life tinged with a hefty dose of common sense. He is the son of an electric guitar-playing mother and a Pentecostal preacher and was raised listening to gospel music in rural Iowa. He began singing around age 18 in New York where he ran hootenannies at Gerdes Folk City. A year later he began writing for Buck Ram (of Platters fame) and his production company. After that he worked with a band for a few years and eventually returned to Iowa to marry. There, he worked for the Iowa Arts Council where he performed for children, mentally challenged people and hospital patients; he ... played in many Midwestern coffeehouses and clubs.
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Greg Brown's mother played electric guitar, his grandfather played banjo, and his father was a Holy Roller preacher in the Hacklebarney section of Iowa, where the Gospel and music are a way of life. Brown's first professional singing job came at age 18 in New York City, running hootenannies (folksinger get-togethers) at the legendary Gerdes Folk City. After a year, Brown moved west to Los Angeles and Las Vegas, where he was a ghostwriter for Buck Ram, founder of the Platters. Tired of the fast-paced life, Brown traveled with a band for a few years,... more
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Greg Brown was born in the Hacklebarney section of southeastern Iowa and raised by a family that made words and music a way of life. His seasoned songwriting, storytelling, and music are deeply rooted in that place. He moves audiences with warmth, humor, a thundering voice and his unpretentious musical vision.
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