Greg Brown (born July 2, 1949) is a folk musician from the Hacklebarney region of southeast Iowa. His "Iowa Waltz" was unsuccessfully proposed to replace the state song of Iowa.
Brown's first professional singing job came at age 18, running hootenannies (folksinger get-togethers) at the legendary Gerde's Folk City in New York City. A year later, Brown moved west to Portland and then Los Angeles and Las Vegas, where he was a ghostwriter for Buck R...
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Greg Brown (born July 2, 1949) is a folk musician from the Hacklebarney region of southeast Iowa. His "Iowa Waltz" was unsuccessfully proposed to replace the state song of Iowa.
Brown's first professional singing job came at age 18, running hootenannies (folksinger get-togethers) at the legendary Gerde's Folk City in New York City. A year later, Brown moved west to Portland and then Los Angeles and Las Vegas, where he was a ghostwriter for Buck Ram, founder of The Platters. Brown then traveled with a band for a few years, and then quit playing for a while before he moved back to Iowa and began writing songs and playing in clubs and coffeehouses.
During the 1980s, his reputation was established through frequent touring and recurring performances on A Prairie Home Companion. Subsequently, his work has been nominated for Grammy awards. He also founded his own record label, named Red House Records after a home in which he lived in Iowa. To date, over 200 recordings have been released on...
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