Audra Brown

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Audra Brown is a singer/songwriter/guitarist from Memphis, Tennessee. She was born in Memphis in 1991 and grew up listening to the songs of her father, a songwriter and the music her parents listened to such as Lynyrd Skynyrd, Warren Zevon, Bruce Springsteen and local artists such as Keith Sykes, Nancy Apple and Robert A. Johnson.

When she was 12, she discovered the Drive-By Truckers and fell in love with their songwriting styles and MusicAL variety. Already a writer herself, she won a contest at Asthma Camp singing a DBT song acapello. Frustrated because she was too young to attend their 21 and over concerts, she wrote an email to Patterson Hood and he responded with several lengthy emails comparing her frustrations to his own as a teenager. He suggested that she come to their next sound check when they were in Memphis. She did and a friendship was formed. That night at Newby's in Memphis, they asked the 12 year old onto the stage during the show to sing her favorite DBT song "Zip City". She was hooked. The next day, she grabbed her guitar and did nothing but practice for 6 months, mostly by herself. Soon she was writing original songs and playing in local open mics and venues.

She began recording her first cd, Most Poplular Misfit, as a 15 year old. These were songs that she wrote mostly as a 14 year old. The Cd was released May 31, 2007 with a release party at the HiTone Cafe in Memphis.

Audra continues to write and play and began recording her second CD, Unsinkable, at Unclaimed Recordings in Memphis in the fall of 2007.

She donated a song to the Star Center in Jackson, TN for their annual Kidsfest fundraiser. This song, No Cloudy Days, continues to be a theme song for the charity and was used in their 2007 Kidsfest video.

Audra is a graduate of the Southern Girls Rock and Roll Camp (www.sgrrc.org) based in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.