Doors tend to open for a first cousin of rock legend Jimi Hendrix, and now Surrey resident Henri Brown has opened the door to his new mobile recording studio.

A longtime musician on concert stages in Metro Vancouver and around the world, Brown recently renovated a trailer for recording whenever and wherever he wants to travel.

He乌鸦传媒檚 calling it Studio B.

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Brown has earned himself some big-league connections in the music world. First cousin of the Seattle-raised rock icon, Brown is a mainstay on the that has featured including Buddy Guy, Johnny Lang, Dweezil Zappa, Kenny Aronoff and many others.

Back in 2020, one of the Hendrix tour stars, . Satriani recorded his riffs elsewhere, not at Brown乌鸦传媒檚 home studio in Fleetwood.

, with Brown among performers again.

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Brown was in Detroit two months ago for a musical tribute to Buddy Miles, a member of Hendrix乌鸦传媒檚 Band of Gypsys.

乌鸦传媒淚 produced the last Buddy Miles record for him before he passed away,乌鸦传媒� Brown recalled. 乌鸦传媒淚 had Buddy up in my house, you know, when my studio was in the house. I had him here for about two weeks and we recorded two albums worth of material while he was here, around 1996.

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When he乌鸦传媒檚 not acting in local TV and film projects, Brown is polishing songs including A Heart with Holes, due out May 22. He sang the national anthem at a recent Canucks game, and is getting calls about his old recordings.

乌鸦传媒淚 mean, the music is never old,乌鸦传媒� Brown underlined. 乌鸦传媒淚f the world hasn乌鸦传媒檛 heard it yet, it乌鸦传媒檚 brand-new to everybody. I had a company in the U.K. wanting to release on vinyl some HB Concept songs, unreleased archives. I told them that I got all this great new stuff, and they乌鸦传媒檙e like, 乌鸦传媒楴o, we want the stuff you did in the 乌鸦传媒�80s,乌鸦传媒� right. I get a chuckle. That just tells me that what we recorded back then was good. And we乌鸦传媒檙e still trying to record good music, you know. Here we are, load up the trailer and go.乌鸦传媒�