Greg Brown News and Photos

Mike Ragogna: Conversations With Keith Harkin and The Pines, Plus Larry and His Flask's Video Exclusive

Mon, November 12 2012 7:31am - Source: The Huffington Post - Entertainment

So it looks like you're traveling around the country playing all sorts of dates right now.

Hymns To What is Left

Fri, October 26 2012 1:44am - Source: MOG

Greg Brown's mother played electric guitar, his grandfather played banjo, and his father was a Holy Roller preacher in the Hacklebarney section of Iowa, where the Gospel and music are a way of life.

The Friday Morning Listen: Greg Brown – Down In There (1990)

Fri, August 03 2012 10:52am - Source: Something Else!

There's this nursery I used to drive by on the way to work, with the majority of the plants layed out on a very long piece of black gardener's cloth.

Director's Cut: Danny Brown: "Grown Up"

Tue, July 03 2012 3:53pm - Source: Pitchfork Media

On April 20, an unofficial video for Kanye West's "Way Too Cold" surfaced, starring a child dressed as 'Ye. The clip emerged a little less than two months before the official video for Detroit spitter and hip-hop Man of the Moment Danny Brown 's "Grown Up", which also featured a kid mimicking the style and attitude of the song's performer.

Nick DeRiso’s Half-Year List of Top Albums for 2012, Rock and Pop Edition

Thu, June 21 2012 12:06pm - Source: Something Else!

Taking stock last night, as the sun dove below the trees on the year's longest day, it occurred to me that 2012 has already provided a harvest of good-rocking blessings.

Greg Brown – Honey in the Lion’s Head (2004)

Sun, June 03 2012 11:09am - Source: Something Else!

I've never met Greg Brown (though I did once see my mom, all five feet and seventy-something years of her, run up to him to shake his hand after a show) … but if by chance he was to invite me over to his place for some whiskey and music, I'd imagine it'd be something like Honey in the Lion's Head.

The Friday Morning Listen: Jenny Berkel, “You Don’t Hesitate” (2012)

Fri, February 03 2012 11:39am - Source: Something Else!

I drive by an old abandoned house and wish I knew just a few of the stories that float through the halls and out the shattered windows.

Greg Brown – The Evening Call (2006)

Sun, January 01 2012 1:33pm - Source: Something Else!

This album is a musical security blanket of sorts.

Pete’s Top Albums of 2011

Tue, December 27 2011 6:43pm - Source: Ickmusic

2011 was another year of musical discovery for me.

Songs about songs: Greg Brown, “On Records The Sound Just Fades Away”

Tue, October 11 2011 1:36pm - Source: Naive Harmonies

His wikipedia page states that he is signed to little Red House Records, a label I respect, and that 25 years ago he recorded a song cycle to complement William Blake's Songs of Innocence and Experience, a project so pretentious-sounding that it might be fabulous.