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Bronwynne Brent: American Songwriter
“I Know It’s Late,” the opening track from Undercover, the Mississippi singer and songwriter’s upcoming third album, out June 26th. Brent’s story plays out through 13 soulful, tracks. Led by her thick, sultry, jazzed up vocals, “I Know It’s Too Late” sets the scene of the entire album with her crooning I can’t quit a good thing, before my good thing goes bad / Everybody knows a good thing when they see it / Good things don’t last.

Her first release since 2014’s Stardust, Brent eventually returned to the U.S. after taking a creative hiatus in the U.K. and landed on the East Coast, at Brooklyn, NY’s Daptone Studios, where she pieced together Undercover with producer Johnny Sangster (Mark Lanegan, Mudhoney), and Mikey Post and Benny Trokan of Tennessee garage punks Reigning Sound.

Known for its soulful sound, Daptone Studios was the perfect spot for Undercover. Tracked during a hot week in the summer, Undercover melded together with Brent and her quartet of Trokan on bass, drummer Post, Dan Walker on keys, and Sangster on guitar.

Tapping into the ’50s blues and jazz, Brent offers up her renditions of Chuck Willis’ “Whatcha Gonna Do When Your Baby Leaves You” and a heartbreaking take on Jacques Brel’s “If you Go Away” pulling in cellist Barb Hunter to give the track a symphonic, James Bond-worthy, backbone.

Backed in rhythmic beats and blues, Undercover is a brooding tale of love and loss, getting some uplift on “Walking Relapse” and closing on a more empowered note with “I Walked Away.” In the end, there’s no regret or looking back.

Blabber 'n' Smoke by Paul Kerr
"The cover art portrays Brent as a flower garlanded hippie songstress with an ever so slight resemblance to Joni Mitchell back in the days. However one listen to her voice and thoughts of Mitchell fly out the window as Brent has an earthiness that forever eluded Joni’s rarefied atmosphere. Instead Brent has that seemingly untutored and effortless way of singing that borders on the idiosyncratic with the weight of emotion on its shoulders. Immensely attractive and engaging Brent’s voice is in the tradition of singers like Billie Holiday, Karen Dalton, Melanie and Alela Diane while at times there’s even a hint of the late Amy Winehouse on the more up-tempo numbers here."

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American Roots UK by Mike Morrison
"This is a beautifully constructed, arranged and played album of modern folk songs that lean towards dark country, but it is her often mesmeric voice that adds the extra quality to the tales, consequently lifting the album way above most of her peers, at times bringing an ethereal yet at the same time intense quality to many of the songs."

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Folk Words by Tom Franks

Following on from her debut 'Deep Black Water,' Mississippi delta native and idiosyncratic folk singer, Bronwynne Brent, now offers us Stardust - an album that takes the next rise in a flight that's destined to soar. Delivered with a wholly unfolding style that takes much from a voice alternately capable of reaching out to beguile, accuse, remonstrate and arouse, this is a collection of self-penned songs that walk between the lines of softly-engaging and fearlessly-arresting.


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