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                    "Keith and Margie Brown appear in a 2013 Dispatch file photo from when they were featured in Catfish Alley magazine. Keith, 68, passed away Thursday, leaving behind a legacy of encouraging younger musicians, interacting with audiences and incredible guitar playing. \t\n\t\t\tKeith Brown and David Crenshaw shared every homeroom together when they attended Caldwell High School, and while Crenshaw remembered Brown\u2019s other artistic talents, like drawing, he had no idea Brown played the guitar until about 35 years after they graduated.\nShortly before they were set to attend their class reunion, Brown reached out to Crenshaw, telling him to bring a bass guitar with him so they could play together.\n\u201cIn fact, he said, \u2018Bring your axe,\u2019\u201d Crenshaw recalled, laughing. \u201cIt\u2019s like, my axe? What are you, a timber man?\u201d\nThough he hadn\u2019t planned to do it, just as Crenshaw was leaving his home in North Alabama for Columbus, he grabbed his bass to bring with him. That Friday, he listened to Keith play casually before the event.\n\u201cI heard him play and thought, \u2018You know he\u2019s pretty good. I can hang with that,\u2019\u201d Crenshaw said. \u201cSo Saturday, I bring my stuff in and Keith says, \u2018Hey, Margie (Keith\u2019s wife) and I are going to play the first set and then the second set you can come up.\u2019 \u2026 He started playing the first set and my jaw hit the floor. It\u2019s like, \u2018Oh my. I had no idea he was that good. I don\u2019t know if I can hang with that or not.\u2019\u201d\nAfter that first set together, Crenshaw and Brown continued to play together when they could, most recently at their 50th high school reunion in April.\n\u201cHe made you feel like a million dollars, and I loved playing with him,\u201d Crenshaw said. \u201cI just didn\u2019t get to play with him enough. I had assumed there would be more times.\u201d\nBrown, the guitarist half of Golden Triangle ubiquitous duo Keith and Margie, passed away Thursday at 68.\nFor years, Keith and Margie have been fixtures of the region\u2019s music scene. Keith, a self-taught multi-instrumentalist, and Margie, a gospel-raised vocalist, met when Margie needed a guitar player who could handle the melody to Oleta Adams\u2019 cover of Brenda Russell\u2019s \u201cGet Here\u201d for a gig.\nWhat started as a friendship grew into a partnership and then a marriage of 33 years, Margie said.\n\u201cHe was the love of my life,\u201d Margie told The Dispatch. \u201cWe just hung together through the storm. Through rain, through sunshine, we stayed together. It was a wonderful relationship, and I\u2019m going to miss him dearly.\n\u201cI was his shadow,\u201d she added. \u201cI was right with him everywhere he went.\u201d\nTo watch the two of them play together, musician Ronnie McGee said, was to see two people genuinely in love with each other and with their craft.\n\u201cYou could tell they just had a love for doing what they did and had a love for the people that were there \u2013 genuine love for their audience,\u201d McGee said. \u201cAnd that always came through in what they did.\u201d\nKeith was an incredible guitarist, Margie said, but one of her favorite parts of performing with him was the way he would interact with the crowd, especially youth.\n\u201cSometimes he would take their little hands while he was playing and let them play along with him, and they would get a joy out of that,\u201d she said. \u201c\u2026 That made me happy, to see him out there interacting with the other people.\u201d\n\u2018Playing that wild guitar\u2019\nThe way Keith interacted with people, particularly younger musicians, is one of the things Dale Robertson remembers most. Where some musicians can be quick to tear each other down, Robertson said Keith was an exception \u2013 someone who made a point of building others up instead.\n\u201cFor me, Keith was one of the ones I looked up to because I was like, \u2018That\u2019s who I want to be like\u2019 \u2026 because he\u2019s nice to the young guys,\u201d Robertson said. \u201c\u2026 I really respect the way that he carried himself, and the fact that he seemed to genuinely care about the younger generation coming up behind him.\u201d\nThat generosity showed up in how he\u2019d play with others too. Robertson remembers Keith being reluctant once about joining him at a gig to play the guitar solo of the Eagles\u2019 \u201cI Can\u2019t Tell You Why,\u201d trying not to steal the spotlight.\n\u201cHe really had never played it before, and the soul that came out of him amazed me,\u201d Robertson said, calling Keith one of the best he\u2019s ever heard. \u201cIt was just so beautiful. \u2026 It wasn\u2019t like the record, but it was really beautiful. (He) could have been the guy in the studio that day.\u201d\nMany remember Keith for his rendition of Jimi Hendrix\u2019s version of \u201cThe Star Spangled Banner,\u201d a song in which Margie said she would simply sit back to watch Keith \u201cjust playing that wild guitar.\u201d\n\u201cHe always played sitting down,\u201d said musician and sound engineer J Dee McKay. \u201cWhen he stood up, it was either for the Isley Brothers or he was going to do the national anthem.\u201d\nDespite his talents, Keith extended his encouragement to any musician willing to step on stage with him.\n\u201cHe came and asked me to sit in one time when I went to see him, and I got up and tried to fumble through a tune as best I could,\u201d said local musician Jeffrey Rupp. \u201cAnd when I was done, he just made me feel like Eric Clapton, and I wasn\u2019t.\u201d\nLike Keith\u2019s music, Rupp said his kindness will be greatly missed in the Golden Triangle music scene.\n\u201cYou say Keith and Margie and everybody knows who you\u2019re talking about,\u201d Rupp said. \u201cI think we tend to take each other for granted while we\u2019re around, particularly like us old guys (who are) around a long time. I think it\u2019s just going to make us all pause and realize what a hole he\u2019s going to leave and how much he\u2019s going to be missed.\u201d\nA GoFundMe has been made by friends of the family to help cover expenses.\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\tMcRae is a general assignment and education reporter for The Dispatch.\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n      \n      \n        Quality, in-depth journalism is essential to a healthy community. The Dispatch brings you the most complete reporting and insightful commentary in the Golden Triangle, but we need your help to continue our efforts. In the past week, our reporters have posted 37 articles to cdispatch.com. Please consider subscribing to our website for only $2.30 per week to help support local journalism and our community.\n      \n    \n\n\t\t\t\n      \n      \n        Quality, in-depth journalism is essential to a healthy community. 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