Corinne West (born 1970) is an American singer-songwriter and acoustic guitarist. She was born and raised in California.
Biography
At 15, while in school at Claremont High,[1] West left home with guitar in hand to travel across America in a converted school bus. She sang in hard rock bands in Los Angeles when she was a teenager. West studied theater while enrolled at Feather River College in her mid-twenties.[2] She restored antique biplane wings, worked as a stonemason in the rural mountains of California, and opened a fine art business in fused-glass and metal in Quincy, located in the Sierra Nevada mountains, with David Duskin (born 1974), a blacksmith.[3]
West's debut CD, Bound For the Living, was released in 2004. Her second album, Second Sight, which followed it in 2007, featured a number of notable guests, including dobro player Jerry Douglas, mandolinistMike Marshall, and Darol Anger on fiddle.[7] In 2009 she released a third CD, The Promise, which she co-produced with Doug Cox and recorded in Canada.[8][9]
West has toured extensively, which have included performances at acclaimed festivals and clubs through the United States and abroad. In 2010 and 2011 she toured extensively as a duo with fellow songwriter and guitarist Kelly Joe Phelps. The pair released a CD in 2010 entitled Magnetic Skyline.[10]
In 2013, West began touring with her newly formed band featuring Pam Delgado (née Pamela Denise Delgado; born 1964) and Jeri Jones (née Jeri Ellen Jones; born 1958) from Blame Sally.[11]
West was born in Los Angeles to Jim Donald Brondino (born 1942), an educator, and Jeanne Marie Anderson, an author (maiden; born 1942). They divorced in 1983. West has a younger brother, Darin Brondino. Corinne – under her birth surname, on November 3, 1999, in Quincy – married artist David Urquhart Duskin (born 1974).
Notes and references
Notes
^ abMake Records is Corinne West's private label based in California – Alameda (2009) and Larkspur (2015). It is not affiliated with Make Records, LLC, based in Rancho Palos Verdes that was established in 2016 as a California entity by Aaron Michael Smart.
^"Arts & Entertainment – Rehearsals in Full Swing for Li'l Abner,"Feather River Bulletin (Quincy), October 7, 1992, p 8B (accessible viaNewspapers.com; subscription required)
^"Public Notices – Doing Business As: 'Duskin Designs,'" Feather River Bulletin (Quincy), September 13, 2000, p 8A (accessible viaNewspapers.com; subscription required)
^"Folk Musician Gets A-List Help," by David Steinberg, Albuquerque Journal, September 7, 2007, p. 21 (accessible viaNewspapers.com; subscription required)
Arthur Wood is an influential folk music critic from Birmingham. From about 1992 to about 2006, Wood published and edited the Kerrville Kronikles (re: Kerrville Folk Festival); and around 2002, he founded FolkWax, an e-zine that ran for about 8 years, formerly hosted by www.visnat.com; beginning around 2010, he began contributing to Maverick; And also, beginning around 2010, he continued posting articles, reviews, and interviews online at the now defunct e-zine, Folkville, formerly hosted by the TalkTalk Group
^Corinne West – The Promise (archived July 18, 2011, at Wayback Machine) (review/description by Fish Records, retailer), album released 2009 (article retrieved September 16, 2010)
Fish Records, based in Staffordshire, England, was founded February 1999 as an online retailer of folk music by Neil Pearson. Peter Morgan took over April 2012, and in May 2018, added a physical retail store in Stone, Staffordshire, that sells CDs and vinyl records. Since 2004, Fish Records has also been a concert promoter and booking agent.
