Brian (Junior) King

Welcome! I created this page strictly for fun and not for professional exposure. None of the music here is commercial quality and most songs are instrumentals with a few crazy vocals. If you like it play it...if you don't you won't hurt my feelings and just click on by. There are a lot of really good artists here on Soundclick so enjoy this site. Thanks for stopping in. ----------------------------------------------------- Junior King is a published songwriter, retired member of the American Federation of Musicians ( AFM), Local 1000 New York and a former industry voting member of the Canadian Country Music Association (CCMA). **Due to on-going contract restrictions commercial publications, televised recordings, film and video files of live and studio performances by Junior King and/or Junior & The Dolls are owned by No-Talent Productions, LLC or respective media organizations and are not available on this site. Junior King's music is licensed by ASCAP. (That's all the legal crap) ----------------------------------------------------- Please Note: With the exception of "Heaven Called Back" which I own all rights to and a few of my own arranged studio clips, I have made great effort to give credit to the original writers of the songs I play. There is no attempt by me to sell any song not my own and they are performed here for the pleasure of my listeners free of charge. I am the sole performing artist and played every instrument recorded (drums, keyboards, guitars) via a studio sequencer, mixer and digital recorder with my own arrangements, excluding a few live recordings with my band. ------------------------------------------------------ SoundClick Interview:

Living in Loudon, TN in 1973 I chanced to meet a pretty lady by the name of Nancy while playing solo at a local bar in Knoxville. We became a duet for a short time then recruited three of her girl friends. Along with them I found a great drummer, a bass man and a lead guitar player. This was the birth of my group, "Junior & The Doll's".

As a part time venture my group and I played many shows in the US and Canada. I also played solo for several years. I am now retired from live performing yet at least once a week I get the urge to do it all again. If I did I think I'd go back to the Mississippi Delta and play the Blues just for fun. As a kid I spent ten years in the Delta and had the privilege of meeting a lot of upcoming Blues artists. In Greenville, MS, one of them taught me to play C,D,F & G on my old Stella guitar although neither of us knew the names of the chords at the time. Today I can play many chords but still don't know what most of them are.

My daddy sang bass, mama sang tenor and played Gospel music on her old piano by ear. (For real!) I guess my musical influences evolved from songs of the 50's & 60's although I enjoy all genres from blues to rock.

Marshall guitar amps, Roland stage piano, a Hammond B3 organ along with various acoustic pianos over the years. Although I am a poor guitar player my guitars have included several very nice Gibson's, a Fender Strat and my all time favorite Epi AlleyKat. I was also once presented with a Steinway concert grand piano by a wealthy and grateful fan which I donated to a church in Austin, Texas at the urging of a close friend and country music star. That piano is now in the lobby of a Children's Cultural Arts Center in Vancouver, Canada.

Fortunately I have made a decent living all these years in other businesses and didn't have to depend on music for income. As a part time hobby, I have spent countless days and hours playing, writing songs and entertaining those who would listen to me. I have played in city parks, on noisy street corners, in churches , barrooms, flat bed trucks, railroad box cars, in homes, cow pastures, football stadiums and other unusual places such as a large ladies restroom in Dallas, TX (the ladies invited me in). Music has been very good to me even though I've never taken a serious approach to it and still don't. All in all I haven't done too bad for a poor boy who left Collins, MS in 1962 with a greasy red hat, dirty tee shirt, pregnant wife, $115 in his pocket and a borrowed car. It has been a "fun run".