Family
Brown's mother played electric guitar, his grandfather played banjo, and his father was an electrician who became a Pentecostal minister in Earlville, Iowa, and later converted to the Baha'i Faith.
Greg was first married to Sarah Ann Taft, and they had three children: Constance, Zoe, and Pieta, who are also musicians. Pieta Brown released her fifth album in 2011.
On November 21, 2002 he married the singer-songwriter Iris DeMent. In 2005, Brown and DeMent adopted a daughter from Russia.
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