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Brown/Moorer are in top form  Johnny D's, Somerville, Mass.,
Nov. 21, 1998  By Jeffrey B. Remz  SOMERVILLE, MA - Junior Brown
isn't your typical country musician. After all, the deep voiced
man with the big white hat doesn't get much radio airplay - he's
far too different for what's considered "acceptable" these days.
But he isn't living in a cocoon either given his presence in Gap
television ads and appearances on "The X-Files."  A few more
concerts, however, like he gave Saturday night at a mobbed
Johnny D's, and the public ought to be pounding down the doors
of radio stations to give Brown his due.  Brown, touring behind
his fine new CD, "Long Walk Back," was the best he has ever been
in the Boston area, belting a home run in playing, singing and
song selection.  Brown's trademark is his guit-steel instrument
contraption. The instrument, which Brown said came to him in a
dream years ago, is a combination of guitar and steel guitar.
The guit-s