Smokehouse Brown

I was born in Los Angeles 1975, my father was born in Boyle Heights and raised in Whittier California and my mother is sweet little women from Norwich, England. We moved to Orange County in the early eighties. I went to school played baseball and then into collage. When I was growing up I had a very diverse mixing pot of music in my neighborhood. All my mother knew about music was the Beatles and a few oldies. But my father on the other hand, he was the man when it came to music, especially blues and R&B. I started playing bass when I was about thirteen. I had some friend who had bands and they had older brothers and sisters who had bands as well. I was playing a lot of punk rock, anything from, Minutemen, firehose, Black Flag, Sex Pistols, you know shit like that. I was still learning to play music. After a while I stop playing bass and started playing guitar. But it was in till I was working on a 64 el Camino with my dad and we went to Pomona swap meat. That’s where you can get cool cars and car parts; if you just look long enough. So there was one time on hot Sunday I herd some music coming from this old hippy looking school bus and I thought that’s sound really cool. My dad said “Oh! You like that shit huh!” I said “Yea” and the very next day my dad had the vinyl of Jimmy Reed live from Carnegie Hall on my bed. So every time I heard a blues song my dad was right there with the vinyl. So when I heard “One Bourbon One Scotch and One Beer”, buy George Thorogood I said “That’s a cool song.” Then he would play me John Lee Hooker. Every time I heard the original I like it better than the cover. Led Zeppelin “I can’t quit you baby” he gave me Willie Dixon. This went on and on and on. So when I stated getting into Hendrix, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Cream, All my friends were calling this early Metal. But to me this was all blues in my mind. When I got into high school I started playing in ska bands, POP rock bands, touring band. And I played with a lot of band who are big time dumb shit’s. But my whole basic music knowledge, and love and soul, revolves around twelve bar blues, and that’s the real deal too me. Times change, styles and people do too. Some people get married and have kids. Some people loose interest in music and some people die. They ask me "Mr. Brown, is it alway’s this hard?" and I tell them "Alway’s". I lost my father to cancer about ten years ago. He maybe gone but I’ve been playing the Blues all over the world ever since. I have been playing music for over fifteen years. The blues is what I love to do now. I’m currently living in Long Beach and playing with Johnny Mastro and the Mama’s Boys, you can come and hear and see me play with all these grate musicians in the West Coast. ..