American Roots Concert Series: Brennen Leigh

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Brennen Leigh was perhaps fated to “walk the line” from birth. Born in Fargo, North Dakota, she was raised just across the state border in Moorhead, Minnesota, in an environment where country music was all-encompassing. “My parents listened to country music, to the point where I didn’t realize there was other music,” she recalls. 

Produced by musician Chris Scruggs (bassist with Marty Stuart and His Fabulous Superlatives), who’s the grandson of bluegrass royalty Earl Scruggs, and son of pioneering country hitmaker and record producer Gail Davies, Ain’t Through Honky Tonkin’ Yet follows 2022’s Obsessed With the West, Leigh’s acclaimed collaboration with Western Swing icons Asleep at the Wheel, which landed in the Top 10 on the Americana music chart upon its release. “Brennen will carry the torch for real roots American music for her generation, and she’s the best one to do it in my opinion,” says Wheel frontman Ray Benson. In addition to her extensive, genre-defying discography which encompassesnearly a dozen solo and collaborative projects, Leigh has penned songs for an array of artists including Lee Ann Womack, Rodney Crowell, Charley Crockett and many more. She has been hailed by the Grammy-winning Crowell as “a story-telling poet, landscape painter, passionate observer of the human condition and a cultural preservationist.” A live-show veteran, Leigh was just 20 years old when she toured with bluegrass and country-music legend Ralph Stanley, and hit the road with songwriter Guy Clark, who proclaimed, as only he could, “Brennen Leigh plays guitar like a motherfucker.” Her dynamic and endlessly entertaining live shows certainly live up to that high praise, showcasing not only her instrumental prowess, but a gift for vivid storytelling filtered through her refreshingly dry wit.

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