Floyd Brown, a longtime fixture on the Baton Rouge music scene, died Tuesday at 79 after a lengthy battle with cancer, according to his niece, Dara Brown.
In addition to his work as a swamp pop/country singer-songwriter-guitarist and Nashville recording artist, Brown also owned three nightclubs at different times in the city — Floyd Brown’s Embers, The Brown Derby, and lastly, Studebaker’s in the 1980s.
A Baker native, Brown was just 14 when he recorded his first record in 1960. It was the promo song for a new water park and campground in Livingston Parish called Thunderbird Beach…