His main genre is the blues, although he has spread out his style to incorporate country, folk, Americana and world music over an almost forty-year professional career.
Performing from the main stage at the Glastonbury Festival to the bars of Texas,[3] Mark Knopfler stated that Brown "offers far more than your average slide player".
[3] After the release of two solo efforts in 2010, Brown met up with fellow guitarist and bass player, Gary Rudd, forming a duo named Shackdusters.
[9] Grit, a so-called "live in the studio" album, saw a guest appearance from fellow guitarist and vocalist Andy Fairweather Low.
The album included the song, "Lancashire Blood on a Texas Floor", in homage to two casualties at the Battle of the Alamo, who both hailed Brown's home town of Preston.
[2] During the coronavirus pandemic, he live-streamed on his Facebook page every Sunday night to raise money for Julian House, a homeless charity based in Bath.