Pitman: Once a Fairfield Idol winner, local songwriter gets back to the basics

Oct. 29—Ashley Brandenburg is back writing and performing music, something that she hadn't done for nearly a decade because she couldn't. The Fairfield native grew up loving music, and obviously still does today. She recalled starting to write her own songs when she was 8 years old, obsessed with some of the Queens of '90s Country, like Shania Twain, The Chicks (then known as The Dixie Chicks) …