Oliver Brown(III)
From the age of 16, Brown played ukulele at social events. He acquired
much of his early repertoire from and was stylistically influenced by
the records of Cliff Edwards, the Clash, Bob Wills and Trini Lopez. He
played regularly at the Landmark Pub in Brooklyn, New York during the
late 1980s, where he challenged the boundaries of contemporary live
music and championed public space. In the early 1990s, Brown developed
an underground reputation for his ukulele renditions of Sweet Jane, All
Along the Watchtower and Uncontrollable Urge, while his originals
There's a Girl at the Deli, Milk Boy and Va-Va became Pacific Coast
college radio mainstays.