Mounds, Oklahoma’s Junior Brown returns to town with his Guit-steel in tow — a “double-necked machine that marries the six-stringed guitar with its steel counterpart.”
Brown blasts through a lively mix of tunes spanning country, blues, Tex-Mex, Western swing and rock and roll. If Wayne Hancock (also at the Beale on 5/23) is the Hank Williams of modern country, Brown is the Ernest Tubb.
Brown has been stopping in St. Louis for over a decade, though I first remember seeing him open for (and upstage) the Violent Femmes in the late-1980s at the Warfield in San Fransisco.
Junior Brown
Beale on Broadway, 9 pm, $20
701 S. Broadway, 314-621-7880
http://www.myspace.com/juniorbrown
http://www.juniorbrown.com/
Video: Highway Patrol