G. Brown

Veteran journalist, broadcaster, and historian

Veteran journalist, broadcaster, and historian G. Brown is the author of On Record, an encyclopedic series of books celebrating popular music from 1978 to 1998. He navigated the world’s musical landscape for 26 years in the pages of The Denver Post. He is the author of the award-winning books Red Rocks: The Concert Years, Colorado Rock Chronicles, and Telluride Bluegrass Festival: The First Forty Years. He was the founding director of the Colorado Music Hall of Fame; he then launched and now oversees the nonprofit Colorado Music Experience, established to preserve the legacies of Colorado music.

Photo of author and local music historian, G. Brown. He is standing and leaning his elbows on the roof of a black car, and there is a white and stone building with green shrubs in the background.. He is wearing a black leather jacket, has a receding hairline of brown hair, and a brown and silver colored goatee and moustache. He is looking off into the distance.
G. Brown

Written by G. Brown

  • Photo of an illuminated concert stage filled with smoke, and the silouettes of concert-goers in the foreground.

    Heard Immunity

    A music writer ponders the quaint habits of music fans of 2020, who, in their day, lamented the loss of such archaic practices as live concerts, in-person gatherings of any kind, and now-outdated technologies. But music itself lives on, as does a certain rock ’n’ roll guitarist.