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Musician of Rock, Folk and World
Sid Brown (6 & 12-string guitars, bouzoukee, oud, banjo) has recorded six albums: String Being ReDieu: Ethno-eclectic Instrumentals (’03) Good Gaia's OptiMysticism: Love songs for each other, ourselves & the Earth ('95) Modality Stew ('78) Peace Bread & Land Band's Bright New Dawn ('78) Mill Town Blues ('73) Liberation Music ('70) Two compilations of his work are available. One as a member of The Spike-Drivers: Folkrocking Psychedelic Innovation From The Motor City In The Mid 60s (1965-67), the other: Peace, Bread & Land Band: Politico-Spirito Folk Rock 1969-78 (2004). Guitarist Sid Brown's first brush with popular recognition came as a member of Detroit's The Spike Drivers. Following the group's mid-1960s breakup Brown followed half of the country to Berkeley, California where he remained active in music, as well as writing a yoga column for the Bezerkly Tribe. By the mid-1970s Brown was living in Vancouver, Washington where he continued to write and record material. He studied sarode under Maestro Ali Akbar Khan and creates an ethno-eclectic synthesis of folk, rock, blues, jazz and world beat influences, such as Greco-Anatolian rembetikos.