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Texas Johnny Brown Releases Blues Defender

PRESS RELEASE

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Houston, TX: October 20, 2001

TEXAS JOHNNY BROWN RELEASES BLUES DEFENDER

Choctaw Creek Records and Texas Johnny Brown are proud to announce the release of Texas Johnny Brown's new CD, BLUES DEFENDER. Choctaw Creek Records and Texas Johnny Brown will host a party to celebrate the release of BLUES DEFENDER Friday, November 2, 2001, 9:30 p.m.-1:30 a.m., at The Big Easy Social and Pleasure Club, 5731 Kirby, Houston, TX, (713) 523-9999.

BLUES DEFENDER is legendary bluesman Texas Johnny Brown's highly-anticipated follow-up to his Handy Award-nominated NOTHIN' BUT THE TRUTH (CCR00012). Composer of the beautiful blues classic "Two Steps from the Blues" - a huge hit for Bobby "Blue" Bland - Johnny has been defending the blues since the 1940s when he began his professional musical career as an original member of Amos Milburn's "Aladdin Chickenshackers". Johnny's guitar shines on many of Milburn's Aladdin Records sessions as well as on Ruth Brown's early recordings for Atlantic Records. When Johnny made his own Atlantic recordings in 1949, Milburn and his band were there to back him up. In the 1950s and 1960s, Johnny toured as the lead guitarist and band leader for Bland's and Junior Parker's bands and was a studio musician at Houston's Duke/Peacock Records. Johnny's distinctive guitar style graces not only recordings by Bland and Parker but also those of Duke/Peacock greats Lightnin' Hopkins, Joe Hinton, Larry Davis, Lavelle White and Buddy Ace.

In 1999, NOTHIN' BUT THE TRUTH was honored with a W.C. Handy Award nomination for Comeback Album of the Year. Now, Choctaw Creek Records is proud to present Texas Johnny Brown's BLUES DEFENDER, the latest in a long line of fine recordings by one of the top figures on the American blues scene.

Please contact Paula Gingrich at (281) 578-5626 or ccrinfo@choctawcreekrecords.com for more information or to schedule an interview with Texas Johnny Brown.

CONTACT: Paula K. Gingrich
Tel.: (281) 578-5626
Fax: (281) 829-6139
ccrinfo@choctawcreekrecords.com