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Old 08-28-2012, 07:18 PM   #8
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Originally Posted by regular.joe View Post
Junior Brown rocks the surf music too. I especially like that acoustic stuff, thanks Jim.

Junior Brown is awesome. On the end of Sugar Foot Rag he goes into a few Hendrix riffs,


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“I used to play colleges and these kids would laugh at me,” he says, his tone colored with disgust. “And it used to really piss me off, so I would just reach over and crank [my amp] up to 11.” What followed would be a retaliatory strike of Hendrix riffage that wiped the smirks off his tormentors’ faces and proved Brown was no one-trick hick. Now, with his sixth album, Down Home Chrome, he not only continues with his stylistic grab-bag of cars, country and characteristic humor, but also covers his idol with a note-perfect rendition of the Hendrix classic, “Foxy Lady.” “No one really should do Jimi songs … except Jimi,” he admits. “But I thought I was justified in doing just this one.”
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