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Bruce Browning
When my family moved to Booneville, Miss., in the early 1960s, we didn’t know a soul, not one. Some of the first people I met are still my very best friends to this day. Bruce Browning was a student at Northeast Jr. College; I count Bruce among those precious numbers. Ecru native Browning had a radio show—"The Double B Bash"—at the local station WBIP. He was in a band, The Poor Excuse. I was the resident roadie, sometimes sitting in so Bruce could dance with one of his many dates.
Bruce and I would cross paths many times after those early days—at Ole Miss, Southern Miss and later when his band The Blue Beats, out of Memphis, became a big draw in the Jackson club scene when I was running George Street Grocery and then Hal & Mal’s. We have canoed the Pearl River, paddled the Boundary Waters, camped, fished and hiked the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and slept on the beaches of the Florida Panhandle.
Bruce Browning is a modern-day gypsy with a heart the size of China. He never meets a stranger. His warmth and musical wisdom come across the airwaves when he sits down behind the mic and spins his web of magic on-air.
He is not only the most popular radio personality in Jackson, but the most popular traveler in many, many ports around the globe.
