Milton Brown

NPR

Published April 14, 1997 at 12:00 AM EDT

Cary Ginell (JINN-el) of member station K-C-L-U in Thousand Oaks, California, has written about the music of Texan Milton Brown. Brown invented a style known as Western Swing 65 years ago. Ginell explains the combination of musical styles that resulted in Brown's taste in music: basically a love of popular music of Tin Pan Alley and the flavor of Texas hoedowns. Brown died young and achieved fame only in his native state. A bandmember of Milton Brown and the Musical Brownies, Bob Wills, went on to enjoy great success with the style.

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