Shannon Leigh Brown (born July 23, 1973) is an American country music singer from Spirit Lake, Iowa.

She paid the bills singing songwriters' demo sessions and managed to maintain her touring schedule of 160 dates a year.

Brown also contributed the song "Half a Man" to the soundtrack of the film Happy, Texas in 1998 In late 2001, she left for the BNA label.

The first of these, a song titled "Baby I Lied," was a cover of Deborah Allen's Top 5 hit single from 1983.

Reaching a peak of 47 on the country music charts, it served as the lead-off single to her first album for Warner Bros., also titled Corn Fed.