Corinne West

This article is about the American singer-songwriter. For the late American painter, see Corinne Michelle West.

Corinne West (born 1970) is an American singer-songwriter and acoustic guitarist. She was born and raised in California.

Corinne West
Born	Corinne Marie Brondino 1970 (age 54–55) Los Angeles, United States
Genres	Folk, Americana
Occupations	Singer-songwriter, guitarist
Instrument	Acoustic guitar
Labels	Make Records[i]
Website	corinnewest.com

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]

She is known for her singing and original songwriting which is based in Americana music. Her songwriting has met with much critical acclaim and secured her a position as a finalist in the 2005 New Folk competition at the Kerrville Folk Festival.^[4][5] In July 2006, West was featured in an interview on the BBC Radio 2 program, Bob Harris Country, which led to a tour of England and Ireland in early 2007.^[6]

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, mandolinist Mike 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]

Discography

• Bound for the Living, Make Records,^[i] (2004); OCLC 318080794
• Second Sight, Make Records (2007)
• The Promise, Make Records (2009); OCLC 767690887
• Magnetic Skyline, with Kelly Joe Phelps, Make Records (2010); OCLC 669772713, 937814189, 842802210
• Starlight Highway, Make Records (2015); OCLC 967975431

Collaborators

• Doug Cox and recorded in Canada^[9]
• Kelly Joe Phelps

Family

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).