With his trademark flat-sided white cowboy hat, skinny black tie and “Guit-steel, Gee-Tar” in hand, neo-traditional country singer-songwriter was welcomed by a sold out on Saturday
Brown always delivers a much-anticipated performance. His style is unmatched by anyone and his precision steel playing is a clinic of what country music was and should be.
With a voice that ranks in the low registers somewhere between Johnny Cash and James Earl Jones, Brown provides the soundtrack that makes you want to become a long hull freight trucker. Reason being, just to listen to his nine studio albums while driving over the Rockies from the east coast to the best coast, and then do it again.
No, it isn’t pop country. Last checked Brown isn’t going to be picking up any hardware at the Country Music Awards and truth is, in his career that started in 1973, he has only had two singles that ranked low on the Billboard Country Hot 100. Brown doesn’t care about this. His music is refreshing because it is working class and it is reflected in the people who fill the concert halls he plays. Pop country needs more tunes like “Highway Patrol“ and “Broke Down South of Dallas.”
Brown mixed it up at the end of the show and when he paid homage to 1950s surf music with a compilation of the music of the Ventures.
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Evan Semón is a Denver freelance photographer and regular contributor to Reverb. See .
