Let him go, monkey: A glimpse inside the tumultuous world of T. Graham Brown

Veteran Nashville singer T. Graham Brown was 44 years old when doctors diagnosed him with bipolar disorder after an onstage meltdown at Planet Hollywood. Manager Sheila Brown documents her husband’s ordeal and recovery in a revealing interview. Come as you were: On a special co-headlining bill with Ronnie McDowell, Brown delivers an intense performance at the Crockett Theatre in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee, on February 9, 2013. Image Credit: The Sheila Brown Collection

“I don’t know what’s wrong with me!” T. Graham Brown’s anguished 2:30 a.m. phone call from a customized tour bus en route to North Carolina suddenly awakened his wife Sheila from a deep sleep at their Nashville home. The country-soul balladeer had uncharacteristically belittled longtime drummer Mike Caputy for supposedly not keeping time during an onstage…