Undercover
  • Raincoat
  • Walking Relapse
  • Undercover
  • I Know It's Late
  • Raincoat
    Genre: Americana
    MP3 (03:26) [7.87 MB]
  • Walking Relapse
    Genre: Folk-Rock
    MP3 (03:15) [7.44 MB]
  • Undercover
    Genre: Retro
    MP3 (03:30) [7.99 MB]
  • I Know It's Late
    Genre: Folk-Rock
    MP3 (03:02) [6.93 MB]
Biography
Lauded by American Songwriter Magazine as "captivating," Brent's last release, Stardust, saw her voted Female Performer of the Year twice in a row by Americana UK and called up for television and radio appearances on the BBC. For her latest album, Undercover, the Greenville, Mississippi, native setup shop at Brooklyn's legendary Daptone Studios. Conjured up with trusted collaborator and producer Johnny Sangster, Undercover is a deep Southern roux, combining simple elements of folk, blues, and jazz into a complex and flavorful brew of truth-imbued Americana.

A multi-instrumentalist and Seattle industry veteran, Sangster brought in Mikey Post(drums)and Benny Trokan(bass) to fill out her sound. In an unlikely combination with Sangster, Post and Trokan, better known as the runaway engine rhythm section behind the 60's revivalist garage-pop of Reigning Sound, lay a thick, soulful foundation for Brent's folk songs. The result recalls the soul-burners of 1960s Muscle Shoals and country-folk stingers like Bobbie Gentry's Ode To Billie Joe. "I Know It's Late" introduces Brent's deep, soothing voice, and the band's driving chops, while she sings, "I can't quit a good thing, before my good thing goes bad, and everybody know a good thing when they see it, but good things don't last." Undercover sees the once reclusive folk singer from the deep south becoming a bandleader and blues balladeer.

Using her world of experience to poke out small town prying eyes amid a groovy, organ heavy title track, she's positively funky lamenting old habits on "Walking Relapse."
On a bluesy cover of Chuck Willis' "Whatcha Gonna Do When Your Baby Leaves You," Brent celebrates the foward-looking 1950's artist's patented rock 'n' stroll. Her interpretation of Belgian crooner Jacques Brel's "If You Go Away" matches the emotional complexity and sardonic intensity that made Brel himself famous. She discovered the track listening to Nina Simone records, and brought in another frequent collaborator, cellist Barb Hunter, to arrange the strings into a symphony strong enough to make it a James Bond theme.

Brent's deftness for inhabiting the perspective of a wronged lover makes her voice extra poignant on her songs about trauma bonds. "I don't play the blues," says Brent, "but I'm defintely singin' em!" Helmed by Brent's singular, bold, alchemical voice, Undercover is a ferocious amalgam of American roots music, at once devastating and empowering. It's Bronwynne Bren'ts best recording, made at a studio famous for it's soul, by a band know for revitalizing rock'n'roll.
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    Neil Young, Joan Armatrading, Ellen McIlwaine, Bobby Womack, Joni Mitchell, Kris Kristofferson, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Curtis Mayfield, David Bowie, Sarah Vaughan, Small Faces, Anne Briggs, Frank Zappa, Fats Waller, Sandy Denny,
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