I don´t know if it´s right, but I got the feeling that Greg Brown, like many other great singer/songwriters, Bob Dylan comes to mind, first and foremost are singers, and they actually write first of all to have the right songs to sing, songs that can release their heart, soul, humor, ambition, rhythm, musicality and love in a way that makes their own heart sing and their own foot tap. His “real” debut was his first solo studio album, “44 & 66”, more than showing the talent, the personal mix of humor, passion and knowledge of human nature and challenges. For a period of time Greg worked with friend Richard Pinney, and they were releasing the live album “Hacklebarney” in 1974, never a favorite of Brown´s, but still, some kind of debut. After this he lived a year in LA, before he returned to his home state, Iowa. After winning a talent contest when he went to the University of Arizona, he quit studying and left for New York and Greenwich Village, soon to be playing and running Hootenanny nights. A musical family, Greg used the pump organ six years old, went on trying his mother´s guitar. Gregory Dane Brown was born 2nd of July, 1949, in Hacklebarney, Iowa, raised in a pentecostal family, his father a minister. Actually, there would be no problem to argue for the inclusion of all the songs on the album, but let´s go back to the start, like I did, after finding this, for me, first album.
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