Brent's life today is a reflection of the simple values he learned as a child worshipping at the local church and amusing himself under the watchful eyes of his parents. He was born February 22, 1960, in Nashville, TN. The first of three children, Brent's mother was a housewife and his father had a welding business but spent his weekends singing in the gospel quartet, The Marksmen. "Every Sunday we'd go to church, then go to my grandparent's house for dinner. We'd sit around and sing," he recalls. "I was always intrigued with instruments. Pianos, guitars, banjoes, mandolins, but the thing that got me was how everyone would be singing the same songs, but they'd be singing their own harmony part, yet they'd weave it all together in this harmony sound. I was less than ten years old and I was thinking how are they making that happen?" Brent taught himself those harmony parts. He sat in his daddy's rocking chair and played his daddy's quartet records by artists such as The Blackwood Brothers for hours. Brent studied every vocal nuance until he mastered the masters. He also honed his crooning skills by studying the sounds of Jim Reeves, Merle Haggard and Nat King Cole.

The guitar was another study project for Brent. He first picked it up when he was ten. He's left-handed and his dad tried to teach him to play right-handed; but Brent couldn't get it. In frustration, he dropped it. A few years later a friend came over to Brent's house with a guitar. It started raining. The friend left the guitar so it wouldn't get wet as he ran home through the sky's tears. Brent decided to give the axe another try. "I picked the guitar up left-handed. I picked it up upside down and I taught myself to play that way."

Like most teenagers, Brent experienced a short stint of "figuring out" who he was. "The summer after the ninth grade, I had never seen the world," he says. "It was the end of the Hippie movement. I met some guys at school who made me feel secure within myself and that was my first brush with peer pressure. So I did the usual stuff. I smoked some dope at some parties. I wasn't really rebellious as much as I was apathetic towards everything or to anyone in authority. It's the weirdest time in life. You're trying to figure out who you are and who you want to be. I had about a two-year run there where I went through some things that I'm now ashamed of. Things I hope my kids don't ever find out about."

These days, Brent's ministry takes him into 30-40 venues each year as a singer, worship leader, and speaker at couples retreats, marriage and family conferences, and church services.

"Reflections of a Simple Man" chronicles Brent’s twenty-year ministry through 18 brand-new recordings of his biggest hits and most requested performances. Simply recorded in an accessible, “unplugged” acoustic style, Brent’s themes of family and faith are even more fresh and vibrant than ever. In addition to 5 number one hits (including songs recorded by Steven Curtis Chapman, Steve Green, and Gaither Homecoming), the collection contains 2 new cuts, “Only Love Knows” and “Simple Man.”