American country / swing singer and band leader. Born September 8, 1903 in Stephensville, Texas, died April 13, 1936 in Fort Worth, Texas.

By 1927 Brown was singing in a group called the Rock Island Rockets, soon joined by brother Derwood. The Brown brothers met fiddler Bob Wills and guitarist Herman Arnspiger in the spring of 1930 and formed The Wills Fiddle Band, which grew and became The Light Crust Doughboys in 1931. Milton left in 1932 and started his own group, Milton Brown And His Brownies, which he led until his death in 1936.

Considered the founding father of Western Swing music, Milton Brown’s legacy is diminished only by his untimely death in 1936 and undeserved obscurity today.