With a few exceptions (The Bottle Rockets, Joe Ely, Butch Hancock), I usually don't listen to much country-influenced music, Dan. About 15 years or so ago, I read something about country music radio not knowing what to do with Junior Brown. I was intrigued, and I'm sure they still don't know what to do with the guy. I think it's utterly cool that a guy who looks like Junior looks, can twist the conventional country song narrative as he does, and play the hell out of that welded contraption he's dubbed the "guit-steel", and throw in the occasional surf/Hendrix/Berry licks, and it's all so seamless. He's that ultra-rare musician who actually looks cool in a cowboy hat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRlcWvVYItA

Peter T.