He’s back! Junior Brown, one of the most popular CarTune performers ever at Mac’s Motor City Garage, returns with his version of Red Simpson’s “Highway Patrol.” 

Here’s an artist so special that in order to express himself adequately, he had to go out and create his own instrument. Junior calls his invention a guit steel. It’s an electric six-string on the top and a lap steel on the bottom, with the big solid body supported on a stand. With this deal he can make music you won’t hear anywhere else.

“A lot of people tell me they don’t like country music, but they like what I am doing,” he says “I hear that line more than anything else.”  That’s pretty funny, because even though he lays down the guitar licks like Hendrix or Page, there’s no mistaking the music itself as anything but real-deal country.

For the purity of vision, Brown credits musical legend Ernest Tubb, who simply told him, “Son, keep it country.” And that he does in this faithful cover of the 1966 Red Simpson classic, “Highway Patrol.” Enjoy.