  jamieson "junior" brown (born june 12, 1952) is an american country guitarist and singer. he has released nine studio albums in his career, and has charted twice on the billboard country singles charts. brown's signature instrument is the "guit-steel" double neck guitar, a hybrid of electric guitar and lap steel guitar. ==life and career== brown was born in kirksville, indiana.junior brown bio | junior brown career | cmt he first learned to play piano from his father (samuel emmons brown jr) "before i could talk". his music career began in the 1960s, and he worked through that decade and the next singing and playing pedal steel and guitar for groups such as the last mile ramblers, dusty drapes and the dusters 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. in 1985, brown invented a double-neck guitar, with some assistance from michael stevens.stevens guitars guit-steel page brown called the instrument his "guit-steel". when performing, brown plays the guitar by standing behind it, while it rests on a small music stand. the top neck on the guit-steel is a traditional six-string guitar, while the lower neck is a full-size lap steel guitar for slide playing. brown has two guit-steels for recording and live work. the original instrument, dubbed "old yeller", has as its standard six-string guitar portion the neck and pickups from brown's previous stage guitar, a fender bullet. the se
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