Outdoor Mural featuring Chuck Brown, closer view
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Photograph of Chuck Brown within the larger mural painted outside of Ben's Chili Bowl. Brown is featured wearing a matching blue suit and wide-brim hat, and wears sunglasses as he smiles and plays a guitar. He wears grey jeans and a belt with a large belt-buckle with his name, "Chuck" across the buckle.
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Exploring DC’s Go-Go and Punk Music Scenes Tour: The Maverick Room
Cited as the club where Chuck Brown first crafted the go-go genre, the Maverick Room – on 4th Street NE, just north of Rhode Island Avenue – is seen as the birthplace of go-go music. While the year has been debated, Chuck Brown and the Soul…