Greg Brown combines down home roots with a poet's sensibilities. Before settling into his native Iowa, Greg rambled throughout the continent, running the hootenannies at New York's legendary Gerdes Folk City, working in bands in California and Nevada, and writing songs for r&b legend, Buck Ram. In concert and on over a dozen albums, most recently, Milk of the Moon (Red House), Greg's lyrics reveal powerful images painted on a canvas of gospel, blues, country, rock, calypso, and jazz. The humor, warmth, and insight of his songs are multiplied exponentially as he improvises on his lyrics, music, and stories, like a jazz man improvises on a melody. Greg's gruff, expressive voice fills his songs with gritty romanticism, sardonic humor, bluesy melodicism, and disarming honesty. Canadian Garnet Rogers opens, applying his haunting baritone voice, poetic lyrics, masterful guitar and violin, and outrageous sense of humor to his powerful original songs.