credit:  Chas Bugge

Brennan Wedl at Saxon Pub

Mar 15, 2025

10:00pm – 10:40pm CT

Saxon Pub

Brennan Wedl documents those dizzying years spent in the world of ‘twenty-something’. Her
radically unvarnished accounts detail an expansive universe that interweaves the everyday
with scenes that might include catholic church camps, queer awakenings, one-night stands, or
collapsed ‘forever’ relationships. The result? An eminently relatable catalog of moments when
profound realizations arrive unexpectedly.

While she has been steadily releasing poignant dispatches as a solo artist since 2016, in 2024
she takes a striking step forward with a new series of singles that will be released via Kill Rock
Stars. These recordings capture Wedl at her most unbounded and creatively impulsive;
delivering sweetly lilting country one minute, and crashing rock the next, ringing out with
jangling brightness at times and introspective in hushed acoustic guitar picking elsewhere.

This impulsiveness is something that Wedl wrestles with daily. Much of her material is
indirectly inspired by her quest to live cleanly after the realization that she couldn’t live the life
she wanted when drugs and alcohol were involved. However, in a move that is definitive of her
approach, she explodes this specific expe

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From: Nashville, TN, United States
Genre: Alt Country
Subgenre: Indie Rock
Type: Showcase
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