Brenn Hill

 

The accolades have been rolling in for Brenn Hill ever since he launched his career. Born in Utah, Brenn made his singing debut at age four. With a natural love of the western outdoors nurtured by hard-working summers at his grandparents'' farms, Brenn ventured into the arena of traditional western music, taking every opportunity to hone his craft. At 16, he performed at the annual National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, NV. It proved a pivotal point in his career, as he was chosen to participate in the "Best of the Cowboy Music Jamboree" jam session at the end of the festival. The audience proved warmly receptive to this new spokesman for rural Western America.

Ever since, Brenn has continued to work the Cowboy Poetry & Music circuit. He tours throughout the West, performing regularly at such festivals as the Santa Clarita Cowboy Poetry and Music Gathering, the Arizona Cowboy Poets Gathering, Michael Martin Murphey''s Westfest, the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada, and the Western Music Association Festivals in Tucson and Las Vegas. He has also opened for such esteemed artists as Chris Ledoux, Terri Clark, Ian Tyson, Don Edwards, Red Steagall, Michael Martin Murphey and Riders In The Sky. And his touring range has broadened recently to include several events east of the Mississippi River

In 1997, Brenn released his first project, RANGEFIRE. The Academy of Western Artists named Brenn their Rising Star (as determined by fan voting in Rope Burns Magazine), and the song Call You Cowboy was nominated for Song of the Year. His bookings prospered and RANGEFIRE went into its second pressing.

Brenn released his second independent album, DEEPER THAN MUD, in 1999 and was promptly named "a bright new voice" by American Cowboy Magazine. His next CD, TRAIL THROUGH YESTERDAY (2000), furthered his unique take on cowboy life. "My songs are songs of the heart - songs inspired by the good old days and giving praise to good folks", he says. TRAIL THROUGH YESTERDAY was named Album of the Year for 2001 by the Academy of Western Artists, and Brenn himself won the Western Music Association''s prestigious 2001 Crescendo Award (Rising Star).

Brenn''s 2002 release, CALL YOU COWBOY, was a labor of love. In its thirteen tracks, he continued to celebrate the land, the stillness, and the hard-bitten beauty of cowboy life. Staking his turf somewhere between bluegrass, folk and traditional western, Brenn sang of nature''s majesty in songs like Roundup Fire and Fall Comin'' On, while tracks like Greys River Road, Nights Like This, and Powder River Queen put a western spin on the love song. There were even Cottonwood and On Avon, elegant and evocative poems written and recited by Brenn to gentle accompaniment, both showing him to be as adept at the classic art of cowboy poetry as he is at music.

Brenn''s 2002 Western Music Association nominations included Male Performer of the Year and Traditional Western Album of the Year for CALL YOU COWBOY. Recently, the membership of the Academy of Western Artists nominated Brenn for a 2003 AWA Award in the Western Music - Male Vocalist category, his eighth AWA award nomination to date.

Brenn has high hopes for the success of ENDANGERED, but he''s not sitting around just waiting for things to happen. He continues to write and tour non-stop, bringing his fresh new voice to one of the nation''s most deeply-rooted musical styles. But it''s all in a day''s work for Brenn Hill. Just call him the real deal.

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