The accolades keep coming for Noel McKay and Brennen Leigh, both as individual Nashville-based songwriters and artists, and in their joint incarnation as a witty and wry country duet.  When an American songwriting icon like Guy Clark is gushing over the music you’re creating, you’re definitely doing something right (Clark included a McKay co-composition on his 2014 Grammy-winning My Favorite Picture of You, and has noted that “Brennen Leigh plays guitar like a [well, his word is unprintable, but about as emphatic as it gets]”).   Both Leigh, a Minnesota native, and McKay, who hails from Lubbock by way of the Texas Hill Country, have attracted cult followings in their own right in Europe and the US.  Before The World Was Made, the classic album they made together in 2013, overflows with timeless, traditionally melodic country tunes, crossed with a modern lyrical sensibility, full of heart and humor.

Don’t miss McKay & Leigh at the 2019 Sugar Maple Music Festival on Friday, August 2.

~written by Brad Wolbert