Milton Brown and His Musical Brownies

Milton Brown and his Musical Brownies are not exactly household names, except perhaps among a few old-timers in Texas and Oklahoma who remember dancing to their music in the 1930's.

Although the Brownies enjoyed unprecedented regional popularity in their day and virtually invented the wonderful hybrid known as western swing, their legacy has not fared well in subsequent years. Their music has proved too jazzy and swinging to win them a prominent place in the annals of country music, too "hillbilly" to be taken seriously by jazz scholars, too full of regional quirks to be accepted as mainstream pop. Where does that leave them?

Well, among other things, it would be no exaggeration to call the Brownies one of the most important, and most unjustly obscure, of the predecessors and forefathers of rock and roll. (Robert Palmer) for the complete article Click Here




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Milton Brown's Gravesite--Note the two radio towers and the microphone.