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Greg Brown walked onto the stage of the Crest Theatre, picking up his Guild Starfire guitar and scanning an ocean of young faces that filled its auditorium.
It was a summer night in 1995.
I was watching near the front, one of countless aspiring musicians there to see the Sacramento band who’d actually managed to get their song “Jolene” significant radio play. Cake’s singer, John McCrea, began cracking the cadence-like rhythm of “Ruby Sees All” on his acoustic.
And then Brown started to play.