Brennen Leigh

Brennen Leigh is an American triple threat songwriter, guitar and mandolin player, and singer.  The combination of her exceptional flatpicking technique, crystalline voice and narrative storytelling has captured a cult following around the world.  Her songs have been recorded by Lee Ann Womack, Rodney Crowell, Sunny Sweeney, Charley Crockett, and many others. She has just released her sixth solo album Prairie Love Letter produced by Grammy nominated Robbie Fulks and is an ode to her birthplace on the state line between Minnesota and North Dakota.  Brennen began touring around the United States at the age of fourteen with her brother Seth Hulbert and is the two-time Texas Music Awards Best Female Vocalist and the 2018 Ameripolitan Music Honky Tonk Award winner.  Twenty years later, Prairie Love Letter, reflects an immense evolution as an artist.  The songs are both personal and universal.  The songs are full of love letters to the landscape and the characters who fill it.  On this episode, Brennen discusses “Prairie Funeral,” “North Dakota Cowboy,” “The John Deere H,” “Outside The Jurisdiction of Man,” and “Billy & Beau.”