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Country & Bluegrass
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| Descriptive "tags": |
country • classic country • usa • awesome • american • sad songs • georgia • blue-eyed soul • country blues • 80s country • new traditionalist country
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| Decades Active: |
1980s
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1990s
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2000s
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Biography
Anthony Graham Brown, 30 October 1954, Arabi, Georgia, USA. As much a southern R&B singer as a country singer-songwriter, Brown was at school in Athens, Georgia, with members of the B-52’s. He earned extra money singing cover versions in lounge bars, until he saw a television documentary on David Allen Coe, after which he formed Rio Diamond, an ‘outlaw’ band, in 1976. By 1979, he was fronting T. Graham Brown’s Rack Of Spam, a white soul band, singing Otis Redding material. In 1982, he moved to Nashville, where he worked as a demo singer, recording songs for publishers who wanted famous artists to record their copyrighted material. A song he demoed as ‘1962’ was later recorded by Randy Travis as ‘1982’, but more lucrative was the use of his voice on jingles for products such as Budweiser beer and McDonalds hamburgers. Signed to the major label Capitol Records in 1985, the artist was known as T....
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