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Brennen Leigh
Brennen Leigh's influences
are rooted in the deepest traditions of American music. With
a commanding voice and an onstage presence that contradicts
her years, Leigh brings new life to a familiar sound with vocal
range, power, and maturity rarely found in a young Midwestern
girl. Since starting her first band in Fargo-Moorhead, the college-aged
Minnesotan has recorded two albums and shared the stage with
the likes of Nickel Creek, Karl Shifflett, the Nashville Bluegrass
Band, and Ralph Stanley. While an appearance on USA Network's
"Nashville Star" gave her the chance to play her Weber
Gallatin on national TV, Brennen Leigh describes a seven-date
tour opening for Dr. Stanley and his Clinch Mountain Boys in
2004 as the highpoint of her musical career thus far.
Between her debut on Barking Dog
Records and last year's follow-up, Brennen Leigh sings of heartbreak,
loss, and true love; of prospectors, mountain men, outlaws,
and trains.
"The CD is a brilliant bit of
American music revival...split between originals and covers,
it eases from one song to the next without a trace of where
the classics stop and an original begins." -- John Lamb,
High Plains Reader
Midwestern mandolin maiden Brennen
Leigh sure picks up a string-ringing storm on a heap of tunes
on her excellent CD "Too Thin to Plow." She sings
like an angel, and she's mighty easy on the eye, to boot."
-- Kati Schardl, Tallahassee Democrat
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