Widely known for his years as the co-guitarist, right-hand-man, and virtual adopted son of the late Hill Country blues great R.L. Burnside, Kenny Brown is a man with more blues cred than anyone his age could ever hope to attain, made all the more remarkable by the fact that the calendar tells me it’s the 21st Century, when naysayers have pronounced the blues dead and been proven wrong about a dozen times over.

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