Brenn + Andy share a mash up of their foibles. Brenn Hill sings "She Loves Me Anyway" and Andy Nelson performs "Language Barrier" during the "Whole Beef" at the 39th National Cowboy Gathering.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Brenn Hill
Hooper, UT
For more than three decades, Brenn Hill has stood under a cowboy hat and behind a microphone on countless stages blending his voice with bending guitar strings in a performance style all his own. He uses lyrical language to peel back the layers of life in the West to reveal a more meaningful, more affective, more effective, understanding of modern agriculture. Brenn’s 17-album catalog is a journey into the hearts of the agrarians of the great American West. And it took many a wet saddle blanket to build the carefully crafted insight. Brenn is far from the dispassionate, steely-eyed cowboy of legend. He lays bare in his music a willingness to set aside the fiction of cowboy stoicism and wear his heart out on his chest.

Andy Nelson
Pinedale, WY
Andy Nelson is an energetic and high-spirited cowboy poet and humorist from Pinedale, Wyoming. As a second-generation farrier raised in Idaho, he traveled the Great Basin with his father on farrier jobs. Now, he and his brother Jim co-host the Clear Out West (C.O.W.) Radio Show weekly podcast, and are in demand as announcers at regional rodeos. Andy offers a wide range of the history, heritage, and hilarity of cowboy culture through the traditional poetry of rhyme and meter and the ever-popular American cowboy art of storytelling. With his experience, talent, and comedic flair, Andy brings an authentic and entertaining touch to any audience.

"She Loves Me Anyway"
"Language Barrier"

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Filmed in front of a live audience at the Elko Convention Center’s Laurena Moren Theater on Feb. 2, 2024.

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Brought to you by the Western Folklife Center, using story and cultural expression to connect the American West to the world.
www.westernfolklife.org

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