Shawn Mullins
Saturday November 30, 2024 08:00 PM EST
Cost: $35
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CRITIC’S PICK: Shawn Mullins, Variety Playhouse—His hit making days might be behind him and his newest set of originals is nearly a decade in the rearview mirror, but Shawn Mullins is a consummate professional, delivering his folk/pop with class and a love for the music. He returns for what has become a Thanksgiving week tradition to sing old and newer tunes to longtime hometown fans with that mellifluous baritone interspersed with intriguing conversational asides. His material is so consistently solid that when he inevitably gets to an extended version of “Lullaby,” now a quarter century old and just as enticing as it was in 1998, it doesn’t even seem like his best song.— Hal Horowitz
From the venue:
After a series of indie releases and growing buzz in the Atlanta music scene, Shawn Mullins’ critical and commercial breakthrough came when 1998 Soul’s Core shot him to fame on the strength of Grammy-nominated No. 1 hit, “Lullaby” followed by AAA/Americana No. 1 hit “Beautiful Wreck” from 2006’s 9th Ward Pickin’ Parlor. His song, “Shimmer” was used in promotion of the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and was included on the Dawson’s Creek soundtrack. His co-write “All in My Head” from 2008’s Honeydew was featured in episode one of the hit TV sitcom “Scrubs.” Mullins also co-wrote the Zac Brown Band’s No. 1 country tune “Toes.” In early 2002, he formed supergroup The Thorns with Matthew Sweet and Pete Droge. “No Blue Sky” from the resulting album, is a modern day classic. For the 20th anniversary of his breakthrough album, Shawn revisited the music of Soul’s Core by recording two new versions of the album. He calls this Soul’s Core Revival. This is not a remix or a remaster of the original, but rather brand new recordings with new arrangements of the songs – one album is stripped down solo performances, some on guitar, some on piano and maybe one a cappella and the second is a new studio recording with his full band, Soul Carnival.