All songs are copyrighted & written by Robert William Brown--BM, and Published by: Pope Publishing--BMI

Artist Profile:

Robert Robin Brown was born in West Texas and had the
good fortune of being born into a family of music lovers
and musicians. This had occurred during the cold war
era, post WWII in the Panhandle of Texas. Robin like
most rural youngsters of this time grew-up listening to Hank
Williams, Grand Ol' Opry and later Elvis Presley while
studying guitar with his brother Bennie. In 1958, at
the young age of thirteen he founded his first band,
the Swing Kings of Matador, Tx, a band that played
dixieland instrumentals.

Swing Kings--1961

By the early sixties he
had graduated to Rock'n Roll and rockabilly music. A
great influence on his early guitar playing was George
Tomsco of the Fireballs and also he loved the Ventures. Being
somewhat multi-talented Robin wrote his first song in
1957 but a Hollywood song-shark used this song to bilk
his father of $100. In 1964 with Ronnie Hester and John Holcombe he
formed a rock band "The Westwinds" in Canyon, Tx
while attending college, and they became popular around
the region.

J. Holcombe & Robin Brown--1964

Ronnie Hester

After recording at Norman Petty's studio
(Clovis), Ray Ruff's Studio (Amarillo) and also
playing onstage for several years professionally, in
1975 he moved to Nashville to pursue a songwriting
career. He met a lot of important people but wasn't successful in getting songs recorded so
after one year there he gave-up his dream and returned
to Texas. Although his dreams were postponed until
recently he has now made available these original and early
songs as a tribute to all those that once believed
in him. Hopefully you will find
in Robin's music a lyric, a tune or a story that you
can personally relate to. A song that will
bring back for at least a moment the feeling of those magic fifties
and sixties!

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Update: Sid Holmes of the West Texas Music Hall of Fame awarded Robin Brown with the '2012 Pioneer Award' for his past and present contributions to Texas Music of our region! In the past several years the Norman & Vi Petty museum in Clovis also has exhibited some of Robin's memorabilia as a musician who once recorded in the old Norman Petty studio on 7th Street.

Order two CD's here:
Guitar Instrumentals CD / On the Back of a Guitar (vocal CD)
by Robin Brown
Send $14.95 each to:
Lone Starr Music....PO Box 962947....El Paso, Tx...79996

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Robert Brown is also the author of the stories and art indexes on this website. His story titled 'J. Henry and the Lazy F' is a historical novel of early West Texas. He is recognized as both an Art and Music historian in some circles.)

 

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Note: The above songs and other songs of West Texas are available on CD by writing: mgmullin@netzero.net

 

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