Shannon Brown (singer)

Shannon Brown
Brown in 2004
Background information
Birth name	Shannon Leigh Brown
Born	(1973-07-23) July 23, 1973 Spirit Lake, Iowa, U.S.
Genres	Country
Occupation	Singer-songwriter
Years active	1997–present
Labels	Arista Nashville BNA Warner Bros.

Shannon Leigh Brown (born July 23, 1973) is an American country music singer from Spirit Lake, Iowa. Although she has recorded three albums on various labels, only one of these – 2006's Corn Fed — was released. In her career, she has charted four singles on the Billboard country charts, with her highest-charting single being a 2002 cover of Deborah Allen's "Baby I Lied," at number 40. She also contributed the song "Half a Man" to the soundtrack for the 1998 film Happy, Texas.

Biography

After several years of touring the Midwest with her father running the soundboard and her mom running lights, Shannon decided to make the move to Nashville, Tennessee. She paid the bills singing songwriters' demo sessions and managed to maintain her touring schedule of 160 dates a year. Her vocal stylings and industrious approach did not go unnoticed. She is married to video director Shaun Silva who directed the video for "Corn Fed."

Career

Brown's first recording contract was with Arista Nashville in 1997. A year later, she began work on her debut album A Tour of My Heart. Although the album's lead-off single (titled "I Won't Lie") entered the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts, A Tour of My Heart was ultimately unreleased. Brown also contributed the song "Half a Man" to the soundtrack of the film Happy, Texas in 1998

In late 2001, she left for the BNA label. While on BNA, she began work on a second album, from which two singles were released. The first of these, a song titled "Baby I Lied," was a cover of Deborah Allen's Top 5 hit single from 1983. Brown's cover became her only Top 40 hit upon its release. A second single from her BNA album, titled "Untangle My Heart," also charted. Brown's second album also remained unreleased, however, and she exited BNA not long afterward.

Warner Bros. Records signed Brown to her third recording contract in late 2005. That year, she made her fourth chart entry with the song "Corn Fed." Reaching a peak of 47 on the country music charts, it served as the lead-off single to her first album for Warner Bros., also titled Corn Fed. Her third album overall, Corn Fed was also Brown's first album to be released commercially. The album was produced by John Rich, one half of country music duo Big & Rich. After its second single, "Pearls," failed to chart, Brown and Warner Bros. parted ways.

Discography

Albums

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions
		US Country	US	US Heat
Corn Fed	Release date: February 28, 2006 Label: Warner Bros. Records	34	163	6

Singles

Year	Single	Peak positions	Album
		US Country
1998	"I Won't Lie"	58	A Tour of My Heart (unreleased)
1999	"Half a Man"	—	Happy, Texas (soundtrack)
2001	"Baby I Lied"	40	Untangle My Heart (unreleased)
2002	"Untangle My Heart"	58
2005	"Corn Fed"	47	Corn Fed
2006	"Pearls"	—
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

Music videos

Year	Title	Director
1998	"I Won't Lie"	Steven Goldmann
1999	"Half a Man"
2005	"Corn Fed"	Shaun Silva

External links

• Shannon Brown at AllMusic