At 15, while in school at Claremont High, 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. 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, a blacksmith. 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. 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. 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. In 2009 she released a third CD, The Promise, which she co-produced with Doug Cox and recorded in Canada. 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. In 2013, West began touring with her newly formed band featuring Pam Delgado and Jeri Jones from Blame Sally.
Magnetic Skyline, with Kelly Joe Phelps, Make Records ;
Starlight Highway, Make Records ;
Collaborators
Doug Cox and recorded in Canada
Kelly Joe Phelps
Family
West was born in Los Angeles to Jim Donald Brondino, an educator, and Jeanne Marie Anderson, an author ''. 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.
