“Brennen can out play, out sing and out write just about anybody. She’s been dropping a lot of new music these days and we’re real lucky for it.” – Charley Crockett
“A story-telling poet, landscape painter, passionate observer of the human condition and a cultural preservationist.” – Rodney Crowell
An adventurous artist wholly and authentically herself.” – No Depression
When it comes to Brennen Leigh, there is no question. Always and assuredly precise in her ability to craft country music of the highest caliber, her latest album – the uncompromisingly titled Don’t You Ever Give Up On Love – is packed full of playful earworms, tender tearjerkers and honky tonk quintessence that two steps straight to the heart.
Offered as a declaration for the desperate, the titular track that opens the album was initially composed by friend and fellow musician Elijah Ocean, who had completed a portion of the song with Leigh in mind. “My immediate reply was ‘Don’t you dare finish that without me,’”says Leigh. Bright and blissful, the resulting co-write boasts a cinematic quality akin to the soundtrack of a countrified happily-ever-after ending.
