Shawn James
Wednesday September 4, 2024 08:00 PM EDT
Cost: $25 Adv / $31 DOS / $150 VIP
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CRITIC’S PICK: Where there’s pain there’s beauty, and where there’s beauty there’s pain. Somewhere in the middle there’s music and that’s the sound of Shawn James. Imagine the darkest of Delta blues crossed with haunting Celtic wails, the growl of despair over the loveliest of minor chord arpeggios, lyric imaginings as fitting to a chain gang as a troubadour, and that’s where you’ll find his sound. Chicago-born, he’s cut from the same cloth as homegrown Oliver Wood, and although the incongruous billing includes the less-lovely Harley Poe, (whose repertoire includes songs like Eat Shit and Die and Transvestites Can Be Cannibals, Too), Shawn James is my blue ribbon pick this month. — Shannon Marie Tovey
From the venue:
Hey there, this is Shawn James. I’ve had way too many writers think they could sum me up & relay what I’m about from an hour long conversation so they could write my “bio” but I’ve had it. Screw that. I’ll tell it in my own words. I was born & raised In Chicago, Illinois. I grew up on the south side of the city where I attended a gospel church. I was always around a lot of heartfelt soulful music & hardworking, real, down to earth people. Although I no longer abide by any religion, I value the times I had and how they shaped me to be what I am now.At The Loft
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