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Shaun

Keep It Real, Keep It Americana

About Me

Recently re-located to C'ville, Va after a five year stint as the music director and Morning Show host of Allegheny Mountain Radio. When I'm not listening to tons of music or writing about music...I'm generally behind the wheel heading to or from a show or I'm managing one of C'ville most beloved lunch spots at Revolutionary Soup. Dreaming, writing, and breathing in the spirit of Kerouac, Whitman, and ol Bob Dylan....

My Interests


I'd like to meet:

Terrence Mallick, David Chase, Charles Bukowski, and Hank Williams...in that order.

Album Reviews and The Americana Roots Roundtable.
Check out my latest album reviews online at AmericanaRoots.com. My column is listed as "One Hoarse Town". I'm also one of the co-hosts of our podcast show "The Americana Roots Roundtable".If you're an Americana music fan you should stop by and join us. The web address is www.americanaroots.com.

Snapshots Into the Heart of Things.

Music:

Johnny Cash & Bob Dylan

Add to My Profile | More VideosTom Waits - Hold On

Add to My Profile | More VideosHank Williams III-Ramblin Man

Add to My Profile | More VideosRay Wylie Hubbard - Snake Farm

Add to My Profile | More VideosEilen Jewell Back to Dallas

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Bobby Bare Jr. - Bobby Bare Jr.'s Young Criminals' Starvation League

The Avett Brothers - Emotionalism

Willis Alan Ramsey - Willis Alan Ramsey

Tom Waits - Rain Dogs

Uncle Tupelo - March 16-20, 1992

Asylum Street Spankers - Spanks for the Memories

Guy Clark - Old No. 1/Texas Cookin'

Paul Burch - Fool for Love

Townes Van Zandt - Live at the Old Quarter, Houston, Texas

The Gourds - Ghosts of Hallelujah

Chris Knight - Enough Rope

Martha Scanlan - The West Was Burning

Pull the Brake

Wilco - Being There

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Movies:

Dead Man, Badlands, Be Here to Love Me, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Cool Hand Luke, Apocolypse Now, Rear Window, The Last Picture Show, Easy Rider, Slacker, The Big Lebowski, The Lives of Others, True Stories, Ran, Dazed and Confused, Fearless Freaks, and Heartworn Highways.

Television:

Northern Exposure "Northern Lights"

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Books:

The writings of Jack Kerouac (in particular Big Sur, the Town and the City, and Visions of Cody), Allen Ginsberg's "Howl", "Sometimes a Great Notion" by Ken Kesey, "Tao Teh Ching" by Lao Tzu, the complete works of Charles Bukowski and Sam Shephard, "Leaves of Grass" by Walt Whitman, "Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole, the poems of e.e. cummings and Pablo Neruda, "The Master and the Margarita" by Bulgakov, "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand, the writings of Leonard Cohen, and most, if not all, of the works of Tom Robbins.

My Blog

incomplete thoughts on a day most wholey...

random notes:  we spent an entire morning in bed, under thick covers, the deep chill of October breezes from the bay blowing through the windows&just wanted to remember these things as they are f...
Posted by Shaun on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 12:57:00 PST

a rooftop in Berkeley

AN OPTICAL WHIMSY OF JOY   i feel like i have the world in my belly, swelling up from the sand and the surf and the goddamn vastness from the edge of the continent   i feel holy and aware,...
Posted by Shaun on Sat, 06 Oct 2007 05:46:00 PST

Starr Hill Music Hall closing its doors

For those of you who have not heard the latest news from the Charlottesville music scene...Starr Hill Restaurant and Music Hall is closing its doors.  The last scheduled show at Starr Hill Music ...
Posted by Shaun on Mon, 02 Jul 2007 03:44:00 PST

protest

compare the movementsof my handwith your strings--how you vibrateagainst my touch--when the naked womanwas my guitaron an empty stageas i stood singingagainst the war--...
Posted by Shaun on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 07:21:00 PST

brief verse

Cathedral-- to christopher wren,who in his lofty designof godhas blocked my viewof the setting sun--
Posted by Shaun on Fri, 29 Jun 2007 07:18:00 PST

In an effort to keep you better informed...

I thought I would post this concert calendar of local shows in the coming months that have popped up on my musical radar...this way you can't say I didn't tell you about it...and if you've got somethi...
Posted by Shaun on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 06:39:00 PST

Well you went and done it again...Webb Wilder

For those of you who live in and around C'ville, VA...I just wanted to let you know that you let another great performer slide right under your noses...if you didn't make it out to the Outback Lodge l...
Posted by Shaun on Tue, 26 Jun 2007 05:40:00 PST

Sometimes life is a mix tape...

and if tonight were only a honky tonk and the bartender smiled sweetly with a shot of jack daniels in hand...maybe it would sound something like this: TWANG 01.  Truckload of Art--Cracker02. ...
Posted by Shaun on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 09:54:00 PST

Pome

  concerning the thumb   in some land of monkeys maybe i would be able to make sense of these discernable lyrics and this dichotomy of ends and means and demands but for now i am led to b...
Posted by Shaun on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 08:08:00 PST

Record Review: Malcolm Holcombe

Here's another record review in my continuing series of re-posts of articles I've written for the online website AmericanaRoots.com.  Great song writers are my heroes...Malcolm Holcombe is defina...
Posted by Shaun on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 07:32:00 PST