Brett Dennen  is a folk/pop singer and songwriter from Northern California. Brett Dennen attended Camp Jack Hazard, a residential summer camp, as a child and adolescent, and worked there as a counselor. He has continued to help the camp, performing at a fundraiser in February 2012 for the Jack and Buena Foundation, which now runs Camp Jack Hazard. Brett Dennen attended UC Santa Cruz from 2000–2004, where he was a student at Kresge College. Dennen has been a part of The Mosaic Project, a San Francisco Bay Area-based nonprofit organization, since its inception. The Mosaic Project works towards a peaceful future by uniting young children of diverse backgrounds, providing them with essential skills to thrive in an increasingly diverse society, and empowering them to strive for peace. In 2004, Dennen released his self-titled first album, Brett Dennen. His second album, So Much More, includes the singles “Ain’t No Reason”, “She’s Mine” and “Darlin’ Do Not Fear”. Dennen also contributed a cover of “Private Life” to the 2006 tribute album Drink To Bones That Turn To Dust: A Toast To Oingo Boingo. In an interview with American Songwriter magazine, Dennen acknowledged Paul Simon’s significant influence on his music as well as commenting that Paul Simon’s ““Graceland is my all time favorite album.” As The Mosaic Project’s Resident Rock Star, Dennen created an original musical curriculum for the program, which they released as an album called Children’s Songs for Peace and a Better World, in 2003. It won a Children’s Music Web 2004 Award and a Parent’s Choice 2004 Approved Award. Dennen was named by Rolling Stone magazine as an “Artist to Watch” and, in 2008, Entertainment Weekly called him one of its eight “Guys on the Rise”.He has attendedfestivals such as the Rothbury Music Festival in Michigan, Telluride Bluegrass Festival, Lyons Folk Festival, and the Mile High Music Festival in Colorado. In 2008, Dennen, along with Jason Mraz, contributed the song “Long Road to Forgiveness” to the Survival International charity album Songs for Survival. Earlier in the fall, Dennen toured Australia with Pete Murray. In late October, Hope for the Hopeless, Dennen’s third album, was released on the Downtown/Dualtone partnership. The song “Ain’t Gonna Lose You” was featured on Grey’s Anatomy and topped the iTunes folk charts. The record reached number 6 in the digital charts, and was followed by a successful mini-tour. On August 1, 2009, Dennen performed at the Newport Folk Festival in Newport, Rhode Island. In 2010 Dennen played at the Oulipo Ballroom in Kentucky. He played a mixture of Paul Simon covers along with unreleased tracks from his upcoming album. His fourth album, Loverboy, was released on April 12, 2011. In 2009, Dennen’s song “She’s Mine” was featured on the soundtrack for the movie According to Greta; in 2010, Dennen’s song “Darlin’ Do Not Fear” was featured on the soundtrack for the TV show Parenthood.

Comeback Kid (That’s My Dog)

From the fourth studio album by Brett Dennen.

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Well, maybe it’s the common curse
Maybe things get bad before they get worse
I don’t wanna become someone
Who can’t live up to what already done

Don’t keep it just to figure it out
When it rains and pours, and then it runs out
I was crying on the bathroom floor
And just when I thought I could take no more

Well, here comes a comeback
The kid is back, is back on track
And there goes my hero
He’s an underdog, he’s coming out on top
And come on, come on back, that’s my dog

It was a park of the trailer park
She went whistling through the big yard
She came to raise the dead
And I was a stain on her unmade bed

I found a lover and then I lost myself
And now I’m nowhere, she’s somewhere else
And the boys with the brown, skinny legs
Said you’re on and on, she sees but I say

Hey, here comes a comeback
The kid is back, is back on track
And there goes my hero, he’s an underdog
He’s coming out on top

And everybody loves a comeback
So come on back, now, comeback, comeback
Everybody loves the underdog
Singing that’s my dog, that’s my dog

Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
That’s my dog
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
That’s my dog

Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
That’s my dog
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
Hey

I’ve never been laid so low
Never been laid so low, low, low, low
Why was I the last to know?
Why was I the last to know?

Hear the words, I’ve never been laid so low
Never been laid so low, low, low, low
Don’t let me be the last to know
Don’t let me be the last to know

Here comes a comeback
The kid is back, is back on track

And everybody loves a comeback
So come on back, now, comeback, comeback
Everybody loves the underdog
Singing that’s my dog, that’s my dog

Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
That’s my dog
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
That’s my dog

Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
That’s my dog
Na, na, na, na, that’s my dog
That’s my, that’s my dog

Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
That’s my dog
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
That’s my dog

Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
That’s my dog
Na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na
That’s my dog

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• Audio from the 2011 album, Loverboy:

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