Hot Brown

Hot Brown is made up of the Brown "cousins",Steve and Mike.They play acoustic blues in the tradition of Scrapper Blackwell and Leroy Carr as well as James Cotton and Muddy Waters.Steve Brown handles guitar and vocals.He is well known as the founder of the No Regrets Blues Band and as a contributor to the Yank Rachell Tribute album. Steve is also an actor partime and is somewhat famous for his Indianapolis Museum of Art commercial.Steve's nickname is Scrapper after the famous Indianapolis bluesman ,Francis "Scrapper" Blackwell.He has a powerful baritone voice that can go from raw-edged tosweetly tender in a moment.He is also well known for his outstanding single note and slide guitar styles.Multi-instrumentalist,"Professor" Mike Brown originally hails from Chicago where he grew up listening to Paul Butterfield and Otis Spann ,which influenced his harmonica and piano styles.He was later introduced to the old time blues of Leroy Carr and worked to incorporate that piano style into his playing.Later he heard Yank Rachell and developed his blues mandolin playing. - Indy Crossroads Blues Inc.