Brennen Leigh (album release)
The lyrics of Brennen Leigh’s “Obsessed With the West” deserve to be inscribed on a metal plaque at a Texas natural monument … maybe Guadalupe Peak: “Her buzzing cicadas, her chalky white rocks/ Her high dancing grasses, her black buzzard flocks.” That anthemic title track stands as an outlier on the former Austinite’s latest collection, a 12-track collaboration with Asleep at the Wheel that finds her exquisitely polishing Western swing songcraft including a Texas Playboys tribute: “If Tommy Duncan’s Voice Was Booze.”
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— Kevin Curtin
