Austin songwriters Brennen Leigh & Noel McKay will play a few songs for us during the Global Village ahead of their show that night at Natalie's Coal Fired Pizza & Live Music! They're out on the road in support of their latest release Before The World Was Made and will be making a stop at WCBE!
Tune in for live music, conversation and a chance to win tickets to the show!
It's all waiting for you on 90.5FM Columbus, 106.3FM Newark and on line at www.wcbe.org!
Brennen Leigh and Noel McKay craft story songs with equal measures heart and humor. Before the World Was Made, the Austin-based songwriters’ debut collaboration, spotlights celebrated troubadours in peak form. “These are modern day country duets à la George Jones and Melba Montgomery,” producer Gurf Morlix says, “but with very sophisticated songwriting.”
Leigh’s solo recording The Box stirred waves far and wide, and Lee Ann Womack, Sunny Sweeney and the Carper Family covered her defiantly traditional country songs.
Meanwhile, McKay fronted the regionally popular McKay Brothers, a band legendary songwriter Guy Clark had been championing for years. “Noel and Brennen are great songwriters,” says Clark, whose new album My Favorite Picture of You contains the McKay co-write “El Coyote.” The album went on to win a Grammy for best Folk album in 2014.
