Junior Brown - 12 Shades Of Brown (1993)

American country guitarist and singer born June 12, 1952 in Cottonwood, Arizona.

His music career began in the 1960s. He worked singing and playing pedal steel and guitar for groups such as The Last Mile Ramblers, Dusty Drapes and the Dusters, Billy Spears and Asleep at the Wheel while developing his guitar skills. By the mid-1980s, he was teaching guitar at the Hank Thompson School of Country Music at Rogers State University, in Claremore, Oklahoma. He later became a local success in Austin, Texas, as the house band at the Continental Club. His signature instrument is the "guit-steel", a hybrid electric guitar and lap steel guitar that he created.