Junior Brown is more than a demon country guitarist. He also invented the Guit-Steel, an electric cum acoustic steel guitar.

This is the story behind the unique instrument that he calls the Guit-Steel:

“I was playing both the steel and guitar, switching back and forth a lot while I sang, and it was kind of awkward. But then I had this dream where they just kind of melted together. When I woke up, I thought ‘You know, that thing would work!’ They made double-neck guitars and double-neck steels,so why not one of each?”

A guitar maker Michael Stevens made his dream a reality, and around 1985 the guit-steel was born.

Check out Junior Brown’s myspace page here. More about Junior Brown here. And a Washington Post article here.

Sugarfoot Rag (Hank Garland cover)

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Junior Brown & The Beach Boys 409

In video above, the Beach Boys do the backup vocals while Brown does the lead vocals.