With his coiled hat, poker-face, flat, twangy voice and shiny suit, Junior Brown resembles some sort of minor authority figure from the wilds of West Texas…an assistant district attorney from, say, Deaf Smith County. Then you get a look at his "guit-steel," the sci-fi looking shotgun wedding of electric guitar and steel guitar he invented, and you get the idea that something else might be up. Then you hear him play-a headlong encyclopedic rush of everything from surf-pop to Western Swing to Jimi Hendrix-and all doubts evaporate in a blizzard of fretboard wizardry. An Indiana native, Brown literally went to Honky-Tonk University, becoming a teacher at the Hank Thompson School of Country Music at Rogers State College in Oklahoma. "Long Walk Back To San Antone," a sweetly swinging two-step shuffle, is a relatively straightforward introduction to Brown's unique gifts.