Grew up listening to great songwriters instead of disco. That's very important, I think, to the successful upbringing of any child. When babysitters would arrive with a few Abba records under their arm, I would disappear to my room to listen to a Willie Nelson tape.
From there nothing much happened, musically speaking, until high school (first band-- Navajo Ghost, spectacular garage-rock) which was followed by a quiet spell from 1992 until 1999, during which time I wrote songs. Some of them appeared on "Devils & Crows," my first record, which was released in 1999.
"Hellbound," my second disc, came out in 2002, followed by "Broken Hearts & Bitter Ends" in 2004, and "Love, Money & Revenge" in 2006. The critics loved everything, except for a woman named Laurie who thought "Devils & Crows" was incredibly depressing.
Just Plain Folks is the world's largest music organization, with over 40,000 members worldwide. It's a good group of people. So far my four discs have collectively received 13 nominations from JPF for their annual music awards, with Hellbound and Love, Money & Revenge each winning for Traditional Folk Album Of The Year, in 2002 and 2006. JPF also honored me with "Lyricist Of The Year" in 2006. Jeepers, no?
I think if I'd been raised on disco things would have turned out very differently.
Where was Shandy today? I even asked our lord and savior Jesus Christ where that nice no-longer bearded fellow who wanders about the halls of Media Park was this fine day. You missed the sweet Chrystler (with tape player, thank you very much!) I was rockin' today due to UJU being in the shop.
In other news, I like the look of the new site...all swanky and fresh on shandylawson. com.
Sounds awesome, guy, really good. You were right, it's your best yet, and you ain't no bad shakes on the drums neither nohow. I'm still poking over it so I don't have any specifics yet but it paces well and sounds great and just way to go.
Send me your address again. I forgot to write it down. It's on my work PC, but I'm outta there till Monday. I want to order those CD's. Thanks, Gregg Welcome to my top friends as well.
