Guit with It

Personnel: Junior Brown (vocals, acoustic & electric guitars, steel guitar, piano); Tanya Rae Brown (acoustic guitar, vocals); Jimmie Vaughan (guitar); Steve Layne, Bobby Bellemans, Spencer Starnes (bass, background vocals); Barry "Frosty" Smith, Tom Lewis, Billy Nado (drums).
Engineers: Stuart Sullivan, Spencer Starnes, Bobby Arnold.
Recorded at Arlyn Studio and Bee Creek Studio, Austin, Texas.
All songs written by Junior Brown, except "Highway Patrol" (R. Simpson/R. Rush/D. Payne) and "Sugarfoot Rag" (H. Garland/V. Horton).
Junior Brown's rumbling, strikingly deep voice, tasty electric and steel guitar playing, and splendid honky-tonk and Western swing songs have made him a sensation in country circles. There's nothing phony or clichéd about Brown's music; this is the genuine, untutored, undiluted article. Brown can sing tunes requiring sincerity, ache or irony with equal flair. The CD's 12 cuts include the nearly 12-minute "Guit-Steel Blues," and a sharp cover of Hank Garland's "Sugarfoot Stomp," and the bittersweet "Doin' What Comes Easy to a Fool" and "Holding Pattern." Brown is as vital and refreshing as early John Anderson or Randy Travis. ~ Ron Wynn