Shawn Nelson Music

Help Fund The Release and Receive Rewards For Your Support

I am so happy to announce that I am releasing another album and this one could use your support in a 21st Century kind of way. I am sure y'all have seen these fund raising campaigns around the web over the past few years, so I thought I would give it a shot to see if it could help me in releasing this record right.

Please check out the campaign on IndieGogo. There is a video discussing the making of the record and what the funds will be used for, along with the rewards you receive when you support the funding. Some of the rewards are pretty unique, like a limited edition signed poster and a songwriting session.

Check it out: Funding New Album | The Devils River

By the way, IndieGoGo is a legit outfit so there are no worries around security and privacy.

Thanks for your support!

SAT NOV 22 | One-2-One Bar 

Unfaithful Servants 9:30pm | Shawn Nelson Band 11:30pm

On TUES NOV 11 at 8:30pm, I'll be performing solo acoustic from my house in Austin, Texas via a LIVE WEBCAST on CONCERT WINDOW. Check it out, it's the future.

Webcast Show Info | Tickets | Concert Window

FRI NOV 7 | One-2-One Bar 

Jeremy O'Bannon 8pm | Shawn Nelson Band 9:30pm | La Tampiquena 11:30pm

THU OCT 2 | One-2-One Bar | 11:30pm 

It's been many moons since I have been back to Nashville and I am finally making my way back, but this time I am not heading down the road alone in my '87 Honda Civic. Graham Wilkinson will be with me and I could not be more thrilled to roll around with that rascal. We plan on playing Little Rock and seeing Billy Joe Shaver along the way and we (2Fer1) are playing a showcase show at The Building on Saturday, Sept 20. Pretty pumped to head back to Nashville, it's been too long. Peace.

It's record time again. Y'all be on the look-out for a KickStarter campaign to help fund the completion of my sixth release - "The Devil's River".

I am excited for y'all to hear the record. The tracking is done, but not paid for and we are in the mixing/mastering phase. I think it is the most country album I have ever made, but I could not have made it alone.

Patrick Herzfeld at Signal Hill Recording helped me with the production, engineering, mixing and drumming; Wayne Sutton took on the electric guitar parts; Morgan Patrick Thompson laid down the foundation on the bass;Noah Jeffries amazed us with his fiddle parts; Matt B. Lara tickled and squeezed the accordion on a track; Fletcher Murchison came in to lay down some acoustic mandolin and the Oak-Hill-Billy, Will Dupuy played that dog house bass and sang some sweet harmonies. My friends are so talented, I'm lucky.

Austin Music City
Shawn Nelson And The Good Buds - Enough
"The first thing to get my attention on this album was the same thing that got my attention on the last album from Shawn Nelson, the writing. The guy can very subtly take a verse, make you listen and before you know it, you have been poked in the eye by remarkable words that make you remember what they were intended to say. "

Music Reviews of ENOUGH from Twangville and My Random Jukebox

TWANGVILLE
3 EP Gems: Wicked Saints, Western Youth, Shawn Nelson
"The music itself is well crafted and along with a particular style of laid back delivery I found this to be a really compelling listen..."

MY RANDOM JUKEBOX
Shawn Nelson & The Good Buds - Enough Review
"This EP ticks all the right boxes with great sounding music, amazing vocals but it’s the lyrics that steal the show..."

Thanks to Jammin Jukebox Radio Show for a really cool interview.

Rarely do musicians get to speak their minds without being disregarded as irrelevant in the 'real world'. Thanks DJ Delta Dawn, rebroadcast below. Stay Free Y'all.

Radio Interview: Jammin' Jukebox (3.6.13)

Music Reviews of ENOUGH from Raw Roots Rock and Jolene: The Country Music Blog.

Raw Roots Rock
EP Review: Shawn Nelson & The Good Buds - "Enough"
"They are a swaggering, highly rhythmic band with a loose, relaxed feel that is extremely engaging, and immediately captivates...."

Jolene: The Country Music Blog
EP Review - Enough by Shawn Nelson & The Good Buds
"Consequently we can listen to the songs over and over again...."

YEA YA RIGHT (w/ Graham Wilkinson) - Live at THE CONTINENTAL CLUB - Austin, TX (01.31.13)

Live at The Continental Club in Austin, TX (01.31.13)
Video: 2020Memory Production
Written by: Shawn Nelson

Shawn Nelson- vocals/acoustic guitar
Will Webster - electric guitar
Fletcher Murchison- electric mandolin
Joe Beckham- bass
Patrick Herzfeld - drums
Graham Wilkinson - backing vocals 

Check out the new EP ENOUGH. You can stream the tracks and download them all for FOUR AMERICAN DOLLARS. Click on MUSIC STORE to download the high quality MP3s via Bandcamp.

ENOUGH should be available on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon and many other spots for music in the next few weeks. This is a digital release for now, we are not planning on making any CDs.

Released December 11th, 2012
Produced and Engineered by Patrick Herzfeld and Joe Beckham
Recorded at Birdhouse Studios (Austin, TX)
Mixed by Patrick Herzfeld
Mastered by Jim Wilson
All Songs Written By Shawn Nelson
© 2012 Fonky Tonk Music (BMI) All Rights Reserved

Shawn Nelson - Vocals and Acoustic Guitar
Fletcher Murchison - Electric Mandolin
Will Webster - Electric Guitar
Joe Beckham - Bass
Patrick Herzfeld - Drums and Harmony Vocals on "Come What May"
Graham Wilkinson - Harmony Vocals on "Yea Ya Right"

It's a new beginning. After playing many shows with the same guys for over a year and recording an EP together, we decided to change the name of the band to SHAWN NELSON and THE GOOD BUDS.

The Good Buds from left to right are Will Webster on electric guitar and vocals, Joe Beckham on city bass, Patrick Herzfeld on drums, Fletcher Murchison on electric mandolin and vocals, and me.

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Official Video from "San Juan Street"
Video: 2020Memory Production
Written by: Shawn Nelson

The Alternate Root
Featured Artist of the Week 05.15.12 

Shawn Nelson spins around the cosmos in “Hollow Moon” and takes to some earthly traveling(“More Than California”, “Dreams in the Desert”, “San Juan Street”). Living the life of a singer/songwriter has a troubadour default setting, giving Shawn Nelson fodder and rhymes in ‘San Juan Street’, his recent album release. Following the narrator of “Hit the Road”, singer/songwriters hear the call early and most have the same opening line as the song, “I left home when I was grown, when I could cross the bayous on my own”.  Shawn Nelson calls Austin home when he is not traveling and the style and tones of the Texas songwriters is stamped on his music, taking his tunes from the honky tonk base with rock and jam band riffs that twinkle like starlight in his music. Shawn Nelson Tex-Mex roots spread out to drink from jazz, reggae and bluegrass on ‘San Juan Street’, his fourth album release.

Music Review - Shawn Nelson - San Juan Street
by Davide Albini

Translation
Another young songwriter from Austin? Calm down, sit back and let's reasoning: indeed, how could it break the endless chain that feeds the roots scene for years the town, as it has never failed that particular relationship between teachers and students. In the case of Shawn Nelson must now mention the name of Robert Earl Keen: stylistically this San Juan Street is crossed several times by precise references to the work of that, that characteristic blend of country rock auteur, fragrances of the Mexican border ballads and folk . Moreover, the two were actually known in studies of Arista few years ago when he packed for Nashville Nelson trying his luck with an exclusive contract by the author. In the bars of the capital of the country also made ​​the acquaintance of Guy Clark (a good luck, dear Shawn!), That in a very special evening (had just died, his friend Townes Van Zandt) taught songwriting on a few secrets to our boy. 

It seems almost like a screenplay: I do not know how far we have ricamanto over Shawn Nelson and it matters little, in fact, however, after a trip to Austin, a couple of bands made ​​and unmade (Frontage Road and Crazy Chester) and three disks in a Live at Antone's famous club cittaino, arrived today on time to collect all the ideas. San Juan Street in effect puts a lot of irons in the fire, starting with the production of Joel Guzman (Joe Ely band) and holdings of Matt Slusher and Will Dupuy (South Austin Jug Band) and Trisha Keefer (The Trishas), the latter often a key to the fiddle. More than an hour and fourteen songs in the setlist inevitabilmete end to be very generous and bulky for an error, perhaps dictated by the desire to show off, forgivable because in the end Shawn Nelson has what it takes to emerge in cities throughout Texas and probably, with that free-range step in honky tonk Nobody Got a Hold on Me and Anna Lee and some apt melody (More than California, sweet country ballad). 

We therefore positioned in the groove of the most classic troubadour Texans, perhaps without the peaks of writing the aforementioned Clark, but this honest group of followers that bring water and do the work of the soldiers: Dreams in the Desert with mandolin and accordion evokes the stories of the border, Down There would reintroduce the country and rural electric scopiettante more, I Can not Hide is generally more rock, while Mercy confirms the easy willingness of Nelson for excellent traditional melodies. In the end there is also room for a few episodes a bit 'more' experimental 'and roots out of the norm: Hollow Moon for example, dall'ambientazione vaguely late seventies soft rock, or Daydreamers, rhythmic reggae imprint. Part, as anticipated, that urge to throw in many, too many stimuli. Okay so Shawn, the road is the right one.

Live at The White Horse in Austin, TX (04.05.12)
Video: Fan Flip Video
Written by: Shawn Nelson & Will Dupuy

Shawn Nelson- vocals/acoustic guitar
Will Webster - electric guitar
Fletcher Murchison- electric mandolin
Trisha Keefer Beckham - fiddle
Joe Beckham- bass
Patrick Herzfeld - drums

Music Review - Shawn Nelson - San Juan Street
by Valère Sampermans

Translation
On his fourth album "San Juan Street" brings the Texas singer-songwriter Shawn Nelson a delicious mix of traditional country music in Austin overwhelming with various elements and influences from other music styles such as bluegrass, reggae, jazz and Tex-Mex.

For the production of this record, he called on Joel Guzman, the sympathetic accordionist and multi-instrumentalist best known for his brilliant work at country and Tex-Mex legend Joe Ely. The CD was recorded in Guzman's' Fox Studios in Austin, Texas and consists of 14 songs all by himself Shawn Nelson were composed.

For the instrumentation of these songs made his regular backing group 'The Ramblers' and a number of local musicians including violinist Trisha Keefer of The Trishas' and jazz trumpeter Ephraim Owens. Joel Guzman plays itself for a number of tracks along the organ and happy but once his famous accordion in the song "Dreams In The Desert".

"San Juan Street" boasts some smooth country rock songs like opener "Nobody Got A Hold On Me" and the swinging "Anna Lee" alongside reggae tune "Daydreamers". In addition brings Shawn Nelson also more romantic songs in ballad form as "More Than California", on his knees for mercy, pleading "Mercy", on some of Joe Ely like "There's Time" and the magnificent Tex-Mex tearjerker "Dreams In The Desert ".

The outsider on this CD is in our opinion the title track "San Juan Street" with a starring role in Ephraim Owens on trumpet. It is a song where we would like to draw comparisons to the music of 'Calexico', both in terms of narrative style in the vocals as well as because of the Tex-Mex sounds which brought this beautiful song.

Shawn Nelson in his musical past while hanging around near Robert Earl Keen and Guy Clark, two big names in the Americana and country music. That he thereby mostly good experiences gained and learned a lot we can hear on his latest album "San Juan Street." The quality of the songs on this CD makes us very curious about a successor, but we will speak with probability bordering on certainty still have to wait a while.