Developing up in Preston, England, Kevin Brown was affected by American R&B and British blues guitarists. He was operating as a instructor in 1979 when he made a decision to pursue a profession playing slip and blues acoustic guitar. It had been five years before he captured a rest through Hannibal Information. The label released his demos as Street Dreams; that recording as well as the follow-up, Rust, had been also released on Rykodisc.