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Junior Brown
American country guitarist and singer
For the English soccer player, see Junior Brown (footballer).
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| Birth name | Jamieson Brown |
| Born | (1952-06-12) June 12, 1952 (age 72) Cottonwood, Arizona, US[1] |
| Genres | Texas country, neotraditional country, outlaw country, country rock, americana, ameripolitan, western swing, honky-tonk, rockabilly, rock and roll, surf rock, boogie-woogie |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, singer-songwriter, actor |
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| Years active | 1960s–present |
| Labels | Curb, Telarc |
| Website | juniorbrown.com |
Musical artist
Jamieson "Junior" Brown (born June 12, 1952)[2] is an American country guitarist and singer. He has released twelve studio albums in his career, and has charted twice on the Billboardcountry singles charts. Brown's signature instrument is the "guit-steel" double neck guitar, a hybrid of electric guitar and lap steel guitar.
Life and career
Brown was born in Cottonwood, Arizona; at an early age
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Center of attention stands tall
Heidi Gillingham has to order her pants from a mail-order catalog. Her knees always touch the dashboards in cars and tray tables in airplanes. Stares and whispers greet her entrance into most any room.
Such is life when you're 6 feet 10.
Gillingham, a junior center at Vanderbilt, is believed to be the tallest player ever in U.S. women's basketball. Yet, she doesn't consider her life to be a string of impositions. From her stance, it all seems sensibly routine.
"People on my team go crazy when they walk around with me and people gawk," Gillingham said. "They say, "How can you stand that?' But it's so commonplace that I really couldn't imagine life without being the center of attention and being constantly bombarded with questions."
The questions, predictably: How tall are you? And do you play basketball?
Most of the time, Gillingham is happy to supply the answers. Most of the time.
"It depends on my mood at the time," said Gillingham, who regrets on a bad day having told an Associated Press reporter that as a freshman she wanted to wrin
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CELEBRATING LIFE’S. . . : Little Quirks : 6-10 Gillingham Has Grown to Appreciate Her Height, and So Has Vanderbilt’s Team
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — It’s a frosty morning on the Vanderbilt University campus.
Leafless American elms, sugar maples, poplars and Shumard oaks stand like frozen sentinels amid century-old brick buildings.
Heidi Gillingham strides along a walkway, on her way to a psychology class. Her brown hair, scarf and long coat trail along behind her.
Her smooth, long stride eats up concrete like no other woman’s in college athletics, because Heidi Gillingham is unlike any other woman in college athletics.
She is 6 feet 10.
That’s in her basketball shoes.
In four-inch high heels, she quips, she’s “no more than 7 feet.”
She says her true height is just over 6-8.
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Two years ago, Vanderbilt women’s Coach Jim Foster saw her standing next to a height scale, a piece of wall tape-marked in inches up to 7 feet.
“Hold it, Heidi--stand up straight,” he said.
Foster looked closely. He was right. In basketball shoes, she was 6-10. He asked if the school could list
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