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Atlanta-based folksinger and songwriter Shawn Mullins was serving as a member of the U.S. Army Airborne Infantry Division when he released his first self-titled cassette on his own SM label in 1989; following the release of 1991's Everchanging World, he left the military after eight years to pursue music on a full-time basis. After three years spent fruitlessly searching for a record deal, he established a new label, SMG, in the interim releasing two more LPs, 1992's Better Days and 1994's Big Blue Sky.
Soul's Core, his first album for major label Columbia, followed in 1998, scoring a Top Ten hit with the single "Lullaby." The album eventually went platinum, paving the way for an anthology of his early work with 1999's The First Ten Years. In fall 2000, Mullins released the official follow-up to Soul's Core, Beneath the Velvet Sun. The Essential Shawn Mullins collection arrived in 2003, followed by 9th Ward Pickin' Parlor for Vanguard Records in 2006.
On April 9th Luke Doucet will be opening for Shawn Mullins! Please read on...
Only subterranean routes will get you to certain places. Luke Doucet’s most recent album Broken (and other rogue states) is the hand-held camera of country music. In Broken we hear none of the predictable twists and turns, nor are we sedated with needless repetition. Instead we experience the visceral unfolding of melody and backlit refrains, every song channeling the most electric moments of a day. Broken (and other rogue states) is the dawn of country verité. With three Veal albums under his belt (Hot Loser, 1996; Tilt O'Whirl, 1999; Embattled Hearts, 2003), a smash solo debut (Aloha, Manitoba, 2001), a live album (Outlaws, 2004), and an armful of notable producer credits including two albums each by NQ Arbuckle and Melissa McLelland, Luke Doucet indelibly brings his sensibilities to all projects as a visionary and the pioneer of a new movement in music. Spearheading a modern genre, country verité is Luke's rogue angel. Falling from tradition he walks in time, on earth, from the heart in technicolour.
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