Last night was a great time playing with my old buddy Trent Tomlinson on his Stageit.com show with my El Camino compadre Jon Nicholson. Trent and I have been friends about ten years. Ive written many songs and played many shows with him. Good times.

Happy Memorial Day, and thank you again to all who are serving our country, all who have served, and those who have given up their lives to preserve our freedom. We appreciate you.

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The Galoots – Midnight Moonlight – Bowling Green from Yellowberri Creative Studios on Vimeo.

Thank you again to our sponsors: White Oak Hill Music Production, Allied Energy and The Great Escape. We couldn’t have put on such a great show without your help!

Thanks also to our many media partners, including Tony Rose at SAM 100.7FM and his awesome intern Nick Garrison, who recorded the audio for this video.

Shannon Lawson interviewed on SAM100.7 FM in Bowling Green from Shannon Lawson on Vimeo.

FEBRUARY 25TH, 2011

Tickets only $10

Sloan Convention Center
Bowling Green, KY

A White Oak Hill LLC Music and Event Production

Limited Run Reprints of both CDs- “Ham Days” and “Records” will be available at the show. We’ll also have an aftershow “pickin’ party”. Get your tickets today!

We found a box of CDs from the original printing and have a limited number of these available! The prices include shipping.

Unsigned- $10
Signed- $15

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Blending country and bluegrass with healthy side portions of blues and rock & roll, singer/songwriter Shannon Lawson was born in Taylorsville, KY. Lawson’s family was full of amateur musicians who had frequent picking sessions at home, and he first began trying his hand at his uncle’s guitar at age four; three years later, he got a nylon-string acoustic of his own.

In high school, Lawson formed a rock band, but along with a slew of hard rock covers, he threw in twangier numbers by John Anderson or the Eagles to the setlists. After graduating from high school, Lawson relocated to Louisville to attend college and in his freshman year, he scored a gig with a local blues act (all of whom were African-American, except for Lawson), first playing lead guitar and then adding lead vocals to his resumé.

After a couple years, Lawson left the band and began playing Louisville’s coffeehouses as a solo acoustic act; before long, he hooked up with a bluegrass band called the Galoots and they soon developed a passionate local following for their high-energy mixture of acoustic country and blues. The Galoots released two successful self-distributed albums.

While in the Galoots, Lawson began writing songs for the group, and his tunes won him a deal with a Nashville publishing house, though his move to Music City also forced Lawson to leave the band. After hearing Lawson sing on one of his publishing demos, an A&R man from MCA Records’ Nashville office became curious and after a showcase solo gig in Nashville, Lawson scored a major-label deal in 2001. His debut solo album, Chase the Sun, was released in the spring of the following year. He joined Muzik Mafia in 2004 and toured with the collective group of talented artists while continuing his songwriting.

Lawson currently plays locations across the country and plans on releasing his next album in 2011.

Goodbye on A Bad Day can be found on the Chase The Sun album.