Shawn Pittman - My Journey

Album: My Journey
Size: 103,7 MB
Time: 44:51
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2025
Styles: Blues
Art: Front

1. Until The Time Is Right (5:07)
2. Damage Is Done (3:13)
3. Add It Up (4:20)
4. Heartbreak In East Dallas (3:22)
5. Blame It On Me (4:00)
6. Tabletop (2:48)
7. Low No More (4:07)
8. Countin' Them Days (3:23)
9. My Journey (6:54)
10. Somebody Gonna Win, Somebody Gonna Lose (3:33)
11. That's What Love Will Make You Do (4:00)

The Vaughan Brothers passed on the torch. Now Shawn Pittman is the Texas Blues Torchbearer. To confirm that position he is now touring Europe with Anson Funderburgh and Mike Morgan as the Texas Blues Guitar Summit. And, he is also touring here under his own name, with The Özdemirs (Moulin Blues, for instance).

Noblesse Oblige, so Shawn Pittman has crammed his sixteenth album with 11 scorchers, nine of them are self-penned. Lewis Dickson contributed Somebody’s Gonna Win, Somebody’s Gonna Lose plus there is a great cover of Little Milton’s That’s What Love Will Make You Do. He recorded this stunning album in a Berlin studio backed by the The Ozdemirs, who provide a rock solid foundation for Shawn’s fiery fretwork and soulful vocals.

Opener Until The Time Is Right has been released as a single. It rocks subtly, until Shawn really lets go in a searing guitar solo; there is a great contribution from Simon Oslander on the organ. A similar pattern evolves in the groovy rocker Damage Is Done, but without the organ. Add It Up has the T-birds written all over it, with Shawn playing the role of Jimmie Vaughan convincingly. The inimitable Roel Spanjers adds some great piano work and accordion on the infectious Heartbreak In East Dallas.

Stand-out track Blame it On Me fits perfectly in the Sir Douglas catalogue; it features the wonderful Texas Horns, led out by Mark Kazanoff. Shawn’s vocals are especally soulful; as Doug taught us “you can’t live in Texas if you ain’t got a lot of soul”. Shawn Pittman sure proves him right here. On the energetic Counting Them Days keyboardist Simon Oslander rises to great heights taking Shawn’s dazzling guitar solo along with him.

The title track is an emotional slow blues in which Shawn looks back on his life a a traveling musician. The heart-piercing vocals lament convincingly “heartache is my best friend”. Shawn Pittman truly justifies his reputation as leading man of Texas blues with this superb, scorchingly hot album. /Bert van Kessel, Bluestown Music

Personnel: Shawn Pittman (vocals, guitar); Erkan Özdemir (bass); Levent Özdemir (drums, background vocals); Simon Oslender (Hammond organ); Roel Spanjers (piano, accordeon); Mark "Kaz" Kazanoff (tenor saxophone); John Mills (baritone saxophone).

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Shawn Pittman - Hard Road

Size: 118.9 MB
Time: 50:55
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2022
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front

01. Pocket Dial (5:18)
02. The House Always Wins (2:59)
03. Sativa (4:58)
04. Backsliding Again (3:58)
05. Take A Real Good Look (4:00)
06. Tailspin (4:43)
07. Go Down Swingin' (4:03)
08. Hard Road (4:19)
09. Maintain (3:35)
10. Keep Pushin' (4:33)
11. That's The Thing (3:54)
12. Down In The Valley (4:30)

Dallas-based blues/rock trance-inducer Shawn Pittman puts down some garage-blues dynamite on his new album Hard Road.

Set to drop indie-style on September 13th, 2022, Hard Road is a no-frills, gravel-crunching set of American guitar music tracked live in the studio. It’s a mix of new and old material, a creative decision that allows Pittman to give his fans a chance to hear how his current band handles certain songs from his considerable body of work. The performances were all captured at Wire Studio in Austin, Texas with engineer Stuart Sullivan behind the board.

Pittman tracked Hard Road with the rhythm section he presently gigs with. Jason Crisp (bass, second guitar) and Mike King (drums, backup vocals) are a tight and able pair who do a fine job of powering up and supporting Pittman’s guitar and vocal excursions. The three musicians share an enviable chemistry, a fact proven out by the knowledge that all of these songs were cut live off-the-floor with the red light on. Only the real ones can do it like that.

Shawn Pittman was born and raised in Cleveland County, Oklahoma but moved to Dallas, Texas when he was 17. He began his musical life at the age of eight on piano, moved on to his brother’s drum set, and was playing guitar by age 14. A friend introduced him to the pleasures of Lightnin’ Hopkins and Muddy Waters, which then led to Albert King, Jimmy Reed, and Elmore James. A career in music was inevitable.

Shawn has since released albums numbering in the double digits and built a solid reputation as an iconoclastic American artist. He’s toured with the likes of Susan Tedeschi (appearing with her on The Conan O’Brian Show), Anson Funderburgh and Mike Morgan, tracked with Double Trouble, and opened for B.B. King. Pittman’s last album is Make It Right! (2020)

Pittman’s first cut is the hard-hearted and occasionally dissonant jam “Pocket Dial.” It’s a tough song about catching a cheating lover through their own phone records they didn’t bother to delete. Pittman’s words detail a thoroughly modern take on the eternal blues theme of love trouble and he snarls them out over a relentless beat. His guitar tone is less distorted than you’d expect, which sets him apart and lets him escape the blues scale when he wants to, as in the descending Major 7th guitar walk-down in the chorus. He creates tension at will just to release it and fly.

“The House Always Wins” is a barroom-burning blues done with two guitars and no bass, a sound defined by Jimmy Reed and Hound Dog Taylor. The energy level is so high that you don’t notice the absent bass due to the tune’s manic beat. All the players involved here rock together so well that listening to them play live like this is audio bliss of the highest order. Expect to be left sweaty and exhausted.

Pittman explains his preferences in herbal refreshments in the stony and hypnotic “Sativa.” Again, there’s no bass part but you won’t care. The tune cruises by at the perfect tempo for its lyrical chant of “Sativa in the morning, Indica at night” to take hold in a smoky brain and Pittman’s well-phrased guitar licks also sit on it nicely. It’s a fun track that gives off a feeling of unity.

Shawn’s title track “Hard Road” is a heavied-up Jimmy Reed-style old school blues that careens wildly out of your speakers and starts a party. The great thing is that, by this point in the record, you’re totally ok with it and no longer care about anything but the next blast of notes coming out of this crazy-hot band. Great music does that to you.

Every bit of Hard Road is compelling and worth your time but be sure not to miss the swinging “Maintain” and the lowdown and slow “That’s The Thing.” Shawn Pittman is stone solid and came to play the blues. He’s real, he’s live, and he’s what you need. Get busy and spin this! ~Mike O’Cull

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Shawn Pittman - Stompin' Solo

Size: 101.3 MB
Time: 42:06
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2021
Styles: Blues
Art: Front

01. Mance's Rock (2:25)
02. Leanin' Load (2:41)
03. Ode To Texas (3:02)
04. Fly Swattin' Woman (2:47)
05. Talk Didn't Do No Good (2:20)
06. Go Down Swingin' (4:24)
07. Lightnin's Stomp (1:47)
08. Somebody Gonna Lose, Somebody Gonna Win (3:01)
09. No Such Thing (3:46)
10. Pressin' Your Luck (2:22)
11. Early In The Mornin' (2:44)
12. Take A Real Good Look (3:05)
13. Sweet Lovin' Mama (3:04)
14. That's Alright (2:21)
15. Spanish Flang Dang (2:12)

As most of you already know, I am predominantly an electric guitar player. Over the years of my playing, I have also grown to greatly admire musicians like Lightnin’ Hopkins, Mance Lipscomb, Lil’ Son Jackson, Bukka White, JB Lenoir and ‘Mississippi’ John Hurt. These guys are not only great acoustic guitar players and singers, but also incredible story tellers! They are part of our oral history as significant as any document you can find. They inspired me to follow in their footsteps and work on the craft of a story, a song, and an acoustic guitar.

With 2020 coming to a close, a year none of us will ever forget (a pandemic of historic and catastrophic proportions had many of us confined to our home), I figured maybe now was a good time to strengthen my skills as a solo artist, out of necessity, if it made it easier for me to travel and play.

So I put together this collection of songs: both original and covers, some of them I have been playing for years. Instrumentals like ‘Lightnin’s stomp’… “Mance’s Rock’…and something I heard from Lipscomb called ‘Spanish Flang Dang’, but also songs I penned: “Take a Real Good Look,’ which is about the ‘bait and switch’ selling method, with some entertainment industry parallels and my mafioso inspired ‘You’re Pressing Your Luck.’ And then a few from my everyday life like ‘Fly Swattin’ Woman,’ the Bukka White inspired ‘Early in the Mornin’ and ‘Ode to Texas.’
I also wanted to see what some of my electric covers would sound like by playing Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson’s ‘Sweet Lovin’ Mama and I added some songs from my writing partners Lewis Dickson and Bracken Hale.

I love musical challenges that take me out of my comfort zone. This particular endeavor certainly did that and I feel like it helped me get back to my roots. Born in Oklahoma, played music in Texas for over 20 years, it is fitting that maybe this acoustic record is a combination of both sounds. – Shawn Pittman

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Shawn Pittman - Meridian

Size: 98.5 MB
Time: 43:01
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2011
Styles: Texas Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Full

01. Edge of the World (4:47)
02. Fortune and Fame (4:14)
03. Make the World Stop Turnin (3:40)
04. Call Them How I See Them (3:01)
05. My Luck Has Changed (3:41)
06. No Such of a Thing (5:06)
07. Mr. Dime Dropper (3:47)
08. Make People Dance (3:32)
09. Let's Blow This Joint (2:38)
10. High Maintenance Woman (5:29)
11. Hurricane (3:01)

Texas-based singer, songwriter, and guitarist Shawn Pittman attended the Albert King/Jimmie Vaughan school of blues guitar playing. He's not flashy, and he realizes the spaces between the notes are as important as the notes themselves. Tone and melody are just as important to Pittman's way of thinking, as fast and flashy runs up and down the guitar neck.

By the time he was 28, Pittman had recorded and released three albums that showcase mostly his own original material, occasionally reinvigorating the work of others, such as his cover of Bob Dylan's "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" on his 2001 release, Full Circle.

Pittman was born and raised in Oklahoma, where his earliest musical memories were listening to his father and grandfather's record collections, which included good people like Buddy Holly and Chuck Berry. His grandmother was a boogie-woogie piano player and his grandfather played country guitar. His earliest blues heroes were Jimmy Reed and Lightnin' Hopkins. Hearing both of them for the first time was a revelation for the young, impressionable Pittman. He began taking piano lessons at age eight and stuck with that until he was 15, playing around a bit with saxophone and drums before settling on guitar. Pittman arrived in Dallas in 1992 for his last year of high school and attended the Booker T. Washington High School for Performing and Visual Arts. Shortly after this, he jumped right into Dallas' still-bustling blues club scene, sitting in with and befriending musicians like Anson Funderburgh, Hash Brown, Mike Morgan, Tutu Jones, Mark Pollock, and Andrew "Jr. Boy" Jones. Being schooled by some of the best players around Dallas and Fort Worth, Pittman became a multi-dimensional guitarist who even today enjoys playing rhythm as well as lead guitar.

Pittman counts among his influences people like Lightnin' Hopkins, Hound Dog Taylor, Mike Morgan, and of course, Jimmie and Stevie Ray Vaughan, who came out of the Dallas club scene before they moved to Austin, one at a time, in the late '70s. Pittman recorded two discs for the now-defunct Cannonball Records label, Burnin' Up in 1997, and the Jim Gaines-produced Something's Gotta Give in 1998.

After spending the next two years battling some personal and professional demons, including the premature closing of Minneapolis-based Cannonball Records, Pittman moved to Austin, got his act together with the aid of two bassists, Tommy Shannon and Preston Hubbard, and released the somewhat autobiographical Full Circle, a 2001 release on his own Shawn Pittman Music label out of Austin. Full Circle was also produced by Jim Gaines.

Of his three releases, Something's Gotta Give and Full Circle showcase a mature songwriter with something to say, deep, tone-conscious guitar playing, and a fine voice. On Full Circle, Pittman is backed by a short who's-who of Austin-area musicians, including Tommy Shannon and Chris Layton from Stevie Ray Vaughan's Double Trouble on bass and drums, as well as Riley Osborne on Hammond B-3 and keyboards. ~Richard Skelly

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Shawn Pittman & The Moeller Bros - Triple Troubles

Size: 142,2 MB
Time: 60:33
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2010
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front

01. Hand It Off (3:08)
02. Tell Me (3:35)
03. Hell Or High Water (4:02)
04. Be My Queen (4:09)
05. 24 Hours Aint Enough (4:20)
06. The Judge Should Know (5:20)
07. My Home Is A Prison (4:42)
08. Movin' (4:50)
09. I've Had Enough (3:03)
10. One Thing On My Mind (4:22)
11. I Got A Call (3:58)
12. Train Blues (3:47)
13. Too Much Noise (3:20)
14. Step By Step (3:59)
15. Do Yo Best & Can' Da Rest (3:51)

Personnel:
Shawn Pittman: Guitar, Vocals
Johnny Moeller: Guitar
Jason Moeller: Drums

Great record, old-fashioned in concept and sound. Take two guitars, one set of drums. No bass. Recorded during two sessions in the Fort Horton studios near Austin (remember Nick Curran's early Texas Jamboree CDs ) this is the real thing, guitar battles, a constant blues jam with no gimmicks, no overdubs. Just three guys jamming 'live'. Mostly originals. If you love down and dirty, raw and gritty Texas style guitar blues: This album won't get out of your CD-player for a long while. Thanks to the Moeller brothers.

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Shawn Pittman & Jay Moeller - Straight Blues From Crooked Fools

Size: 96,4 MB
Time: 40:41
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2020
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front

01. Rattlesnakes (2:03)
02. Everybody Wants To Know (4:02)
03. Smarten Up Baby (3:29)
04. The Set Up (3:35)
05. Can't Get Along With You (2:59)
06. It Don't Take Too Much (3:41)
07. Hit The Road Jack (1:02)
08. Dangerous Woman (3:05)
09. Stroll Out West (3:31)
10. Blue Diamond (1:15)
11. Talk Didn't Do No Good (2:38)
12. Things You Stole (2:40)
13. Forget About You (2:05)
14. Woman Don't Lie (4:27)

Shawn Pittman and Jay Moeller’s friendship stretches back more than two decades. While still in his teens, Pittman moved from Norman, Oklahoma to Texas, to immerse himself in the thriving blues scene in Dallas, where he would work with Sam Myers, Hash Brown, Mike Morgan, and others. Around 1995, Paul Size (The Red Devils) introduced him to Moeller, a native of the Dallas/Fort Worth area. Pittman recalls the first time he heard Jay, at Schooner’s, in Dallas: “Jay throws down a shuffle in a way that spoils you. I had never heard anyone play with that intensity and power. It dang near scared the heck out of me!” The two formed a band in which they played together briefly before Jay moved to Austin. Moeller recalls, “We hit it off well. We’ve spent some of the funniest, and worst, moments in life together. We’re brothers in that! Shawn’s great. He’s way more real and convincing than most folks.” Johnny, who also appears on Everybody Wants to Know, is the other Moeller brother. Pittman met him on the day he arrived in Austin. “I showed up on his doorstep about 7 a.m., and he was just as nice to me then as he is now. We have had some great adventures! I love Johnny’s guitar playing – his tone, timing, and chordal knowledge separate him from most players. He and Jay have been doing this, and doing it well, since they were kids.”

In the years following those early days, Jay has performed or recorded with seemingly every musician in Austin and many from elsewhere, including Lou Ann Barton, Lazy Lester, Charlie Crockett, and Gary Clark Jr., in addition to his work in The Moeller Brothers, and was a member of The Fabulous Thunderbirds for roughly a decade (approximately 2005-2015). Pittman, who has worked with Susan Tedeschi and Stevie Ray Vaughan’s rhythm section Double Trouble, has recorded 11 acclaimed solo albums, most recently Backslidin’ Again in 2015. Shawn and Jay have continued to play together off and on, in live performances and on recordings, most visibly on the Shawn Pittman – Moeller Brothers collaboration, Triple Troubles, released in 2010. In many respects, then, Everybody Wants to Know is the latest in a long and fruitful working relationship between two friends. ~Tom Hyslop

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Shawn Pittman - Make It Right!

Size: 110,0 MB
Time: 47:18
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2020
Styles: Electric Blues, Blues Rock
Art: Front

01. Done Tole You So! (3:33)
02. Finger On The Trigger (3:57)
03. Make It Right! (3:17)
04. I Feel Good (4:07)
05. There Will Be A Day (4:56)
06. How Long (6:12)
07. For Right Now (4:06)
08. Cold Sweat (4:12)
09. Woke Up Screaming (3:33)
10. Let It Go (3:23)
11. Fair Weather Friend (3:47)
12. I'm Done (2:09)

Although he’s often closely associated with the Lone Star State since originally taking up residence in Dallas, Texas in the early ’90s, vocalist/guitarist Shawn Pittman is actually an Oklahoma native. Pittman moved to Dallas, Texas when he was seventeen years old where he attended the Booker T Washington High School of the Performing Arts. He later dropped out, but picked up his music education courtesy of his uncle who would take him over to the Schooner’s jam in Dallas where he first met Sam Myers. According to Pittman, “Sam Myers was one of the best musicians I’ve ever played with!” Additional guidance and inspiration came by way of local area musicians Mike Morgan and Hash Brown.

His first album, “Blues From Dallas,” was recorded in 1996 and later picked up and retooled for his national debut in ’97 as “Burnin’ Up” on the short-lived Cannonball Records label. His second album, “Something’s Gotta Give,” was produced by Jim Gaines and followed in ’98. Pittman toured as rhythm guitarist for Susan Tedeschi briefly in ’99, just long enough to make a television appearance with her on the Conan O’Brian Show. The following year he relocated to Austin and recorded his third album “Full Circle,” backed by Stevie Ray Vaughan’s rhythm section Double Trouble. In 2004, a more experimental and adventurous album titled “Stay” was released. After a much needed break from the music business, as well as some serious soul-searching from 2005-2008, Pittman returned to performing and made a plan to record one album per year.

After the 2018 release of his album "Everybody Wants To Know" Shawn Pittman toured extensively across Europe with renowned German/Turkish blues tandem Erkan Ozdemir on bass and his son Levent on drums. This worked out so well that the trio took out a couple of days of recording in Denmark. It took two days of recording and a day of mixing at the Heyman Studio in Copenhagen to come up with 12 vibrant tracks that make up Shawn's 13th album "Make It Right”

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Shawn Pittman - Movin' & Groovin'

File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Time: 73:12
Size: 187,0 MB
Released: 2009
Styles: Modern Electric Blues, Texas Blues
Art: Full

1. Movin' (4:51)
2. Watch out, Baby (3:43)
3. She's Evil (3:27)
4. Yes She Does (3:17)
5. Give Me Back My Wig (3:11)
6. Cruisin' (3:20)
7. One Thing on My Mind (3:56)
8. That First Drink (3:03)
9. Something to Remember You By (3:48)
10. One of These Days (3:42)
11. Something's Gotta Give (4:35)
12. Just a Game (4:33)
13. East Side Groove (3:56)
14. Distress Signal (3:40)
15. I Smell Trouble (7:24)
16. Deals You Made (4:03)
17. Feast or Famine (4:09)
18. Reap What You Saw (4:25)

Texas-based singer, songwriter and guitarist Shawn Pittman attended the Albert King, Jimmie Vaughan school of blues guitar playing. He's not flashy, and he realizes the spaces between the notes are as important as the notes themselves. Tone and melody are just as important, to Pittman's way of thinking, than fast and flashy runs up and down the guitar neck.
By the time he was 28, Pittman had recorded and released three albums that showcase mostly his own original material.
Pittman was born and raised in Oklahoma, where his earliest musical memories were listening to his father and grandfather's record collections, which included good people like Buddy Holly and Chuck Berry. His grandmother was a boogie-woogie piano player and his grandfather played country guitar. His earliest blues heroes were Jimmy Reed and Lightnin' Hopkins. Hearing both of them for the first time was a revelation for the young, impressionable Pittman. He arrived in Dallas in 1992. Shortly after this, he jumped right into Dallas' still-bustling blues club scene, sitting in with and befriending musicians like Anson Funderburgh, Hash Brown, Mike Morgan Morgan, Tutu Jones, Mark Pollock and Andrew "Jr. Boy" Jones. Being schooled by some of the best players around Dallas and Fort Worth, Pittman became a multi-dimensional guitarist who even today enjoys playing rhythm as well as lead guitar.
Pittman counts among his influences people like Lightnin' Hopkins, Hound Dog Taylor, Mike Morgan and of course, Jimmie and Stevie Ray Vaughan, who came out of the Dallas club scene before they moved to Austin, one at a time, in the late 1970's. Pittman recorded two discs for the now-defunct Cannonball Records label, "Burnin' Up" in 1997 and the Jim Gaines-produced "Something's Gotta Give" in 1998.
After spending the next two years battling some personal and professional demons, including the premature closing of Minneapolis-based Cannonball Records, Pittman moved to Austin, got his act together with the aid of two bassists, Tommy Shannon and Preston Hubbard, and released "Full Circle" in Austin.
All his fifth releases showcase a mature songwriter with something to say, deep, tone-conscious guitar playing and a fine voice. Pittman is backed by a short who's-who of Austin-area musicians, including Tommy Shannon and Chris Layton from Stevie Ray Vaughan's Double Trouble on bass and drums, as well as Riley Osborne on Hammond B-3 and keyboards, and the Moeller Bros.

Thanks to Johny Lee Ramirez
Movin' & Groovin'

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Shawn Pittman - 2 albums: Burnin' Up / Something's Gotta Give

Album: Burnin' Up
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Time: 39:39
Size: 203,0 MB
Released: 1998
Styles: Blues
Art: Full

1. Night Stomp (3:35)
2. Times Are Slow (3:52)
3. Dallas City Police (3:35)
4. Gimme Back My Wig (3:11)
5. Trouble Come Around (3:02)
6. You Sure Drive a Hard Bargin (3:49)
7. Burnin' Up (4:38)
8. Watch Out, Baby (3:46)
9. Yes She Does (3:17)
10. She's Evil (3:28)
11. Working Man (3:21)

Shawn Pittman's debut opus for Cannonball shows a strong stylistic tip of the gaucho hat to the Vaughan brothers, SRV in particular. But there are actual sparks of originality in even the more pedestrian and derivative tracks on here. Pittman's vocals exhibit a maturity and assurance not usually heard on these types of records, and his songwriting -- taking in seven of the 11 tracks aboard -- are more than just paint-by-numbers compositions. Nice covers of Freddie King's "Night Stomp" and Hound Dog Taylor's "Gimme Back My Wig" make this a debut well worth investigating. -- Allmusic.
There are plenty of young and very talented blues guitarists out there and Shawn Pittman is one of the most talented of all. Hs first release, is a fine collection of great "12 bars" blues tunes. There is nothing new or unheard here, however all the songs are extremely well played with the right feeling and the right intensity. Shawn proves beyond any doubts his ability as guitar player delivering a constant high standard performance throughout the album. His techniques and tune control are top of the range and if you add the fact that he plays with great feeling you may figure out the final result. His guitar work is excellent in each song setting a new level of benchmarking for all the others, just check out the cover of Albert King's "You sure drive a hard bargain". -- Amazon.

Thanks to Johny Lee Ramirez
Burnin' Up

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Album: Something's Gotta Give
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Time: 47:34
Size: 143,0 MB
Released: 1999
Styles: Blues
Art: Full

1. Something's Gotta Give (4:36)
2. Tell Me Why (5:34)
3. Just a Game (4:34)
4. Get Started (4:32)
5. Come on Over (4:59)
6. East Side Groove (3:56)
7. Something to Remember You By (3:49)
8. Payin' the Price (4:21)
9. Make It Through (4:47)
10. Cruisin' (3:20)
11. That First Drink (3:01)

Pittman's second album shows no sophomore jinx as he tackles a stack of original tunes with energy galore. No speed burner or Stevie Ray Vaughan-abee, Pittman exhibits not only taste and tone, but a wide range of influences from Hound Dog Taylor to Eddie Taylor and an understanding of when to burn and when to lay back. His lyrics show a large development from his debut disc and tunes like "Make It Through," "Just a Game" and the title track display a depth you usually don't find on "young man blues" albums. Those looking for a new blues guitar hero who also exhibits taste and subtlety would do well to pick this one up. -- Allmusic.
Shawn Pittman is, without any doubts, a very talented guitar player and a very good singer too despite his young age. Never than less he is very much overlook by every blues critics. The blues desperately needs new talents able to reinvigorate the music style being, at the same time, faithful to the masters of the past and Shawn is one of them. After his impressive, beautiful, debut album he confirmed with this one that he might be one of the major stars in the blues business one day. -- Amazon.

Thanks to Johny Lee Ramirez
Something's Gotta Give

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Shawn Pittman - 2 albums: Edge Of The World / Too Hot

Album: Edge Of The World
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 50:58
Size: 116.7 MB
Styles: Rockin blues
Year: 2011
Art: Front

[4:25] 1. Sugar (Where'd You Get Your Sugar From)
[3:08] 2. Leanin' Load
[4:25] 3. Scent Of Your Benjamins
[3:47] 4. Almost Good
[3:41] 5. One Of These Days
[3:51] 6. Edge Of The World
[4:38] 7. That's The Thing
[3:51] 8. Maintain
[2:56] 9. I've Had Enough
[3:42] 10. This Time
[4:38] 11. Something's Gotta Give
[4:41] 12. Somebody Gonna Lose, Somebody Gonna Win
[3:09] 13. If I Could (Make The World Stop Turning)

Shawn Pittman's Delta Groove debut showcases a rising star at the peak of his powers. Edge Of The World marks his 10th release and contains an inspired program of original material by an accomplished singer, songwriter and guitarist, recalling all the vintage tones and ambiance of the great blues recordings of the 1950's & '60's. Even more astonishing is the fact that Shawn plays virtually every instrument on the CD, handling everything from vocals and guitar, to bass, drums and piano, on top of doubling as the album's producer and engineer! Jonathan Doyle represents the album's only other personnel by contributing tenor & baritone saxophone on 4 songs.

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Album: Too Hot
Bitrate: MP3@320K/s
Time: 55:46
Size: 127.7 MB
Styles: Rockin blues
Year: 2010
Art: Front

[3:18] 1. How Many More Years
[3:21] 2. Secret Weapon
[2:31] 3. The Same Thing Could Happen To You
[4:23] 4. Slow Down
[2:59] 5. Geronimo Rock
[2:43] 6. Next Door Neighbor
[4:11] 7. Lookin' Good
[3:13] 8. My Love Is Here To Stay
[3:19] 9. Can't Stand To See You Go
[3:41] 10. Play A Little While
[4:05] 11. Business Man
[4:07] 12. Where You Get Your Sugar From
[5:34] 13. Burnin' Up
[4:38] 14. Reap What You Sow
[3:37] 15. Too Hot

Although he’s often closely associated with the Lone Star State since originally taking up residence in Dallas, Texas in the early ‘90s, vocalist/guitarist Shawn Pittman is actually an Oklahoma native. Pittman was born in the small town of Talihina and raised in Norman, a city located in Cleveland County, Oklahoma. At eight years old he began taking piano lessons under the encouragement of his mother, but later began sneaking into his older brother’s room to play on his drum kit. By the age of fourteen he had switched to guitar and was soon introduced to the mysterious sounds of Lightnin’ Hopkins and Muddy Waters by Braken Hale, a good friend and member of his seventh grade football team. Their friendship would prove significant as Hale would later collaborate with Shawn on writing material for many of his albums.

Pittman moved to Dallas, Texas when he was seventeen years old where he attended the Booker T Washington High School of the Performing Arts. He later dropped out, but picked up his music education courtesy of his uncle who would take him over to the Schooner’s jam in Dallas where he first met Sam Myers. According to Pittman, “Sam Myers was one of the best musicians I’ve ever played with!”

Additional guidance and inspiration came by way of local area musicians Mike Morgan and Hash Brown. His first album, “Blues From Dallas,” was recorded in 1996 and later picked up and retooled for his national debut in ’97 as “Burnin’ Up” on the short-lived Cannonball Records label. His second album, “Something’s Gotta Give,” was produced by Jim Gaines and followed in ’98. Pittman toured as rhythm guitarist for Susan Tedeschi briefly in ’99, just long enough to make a television appearance with her on the Conan O’Brian Show. The following year he relocated to Austin and recorded his third album “Full Circle,” backed by Stevie Ray Vaughan’s rhythm section Double Trouble. In 2004, a more experimental and adventurous album titled “Stay” was released. After a much needed break from the music business, as well as some serious soul-searching from 2005-2008, Pittman returned to performing and made a plan to record one album per year. By mid-2010 he already had five independently released recordings under his belt! This flurry of activity eventually led to a new record contract with Delta Groove and plans were immediately set in motion to record yet another album.

Too Hot

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Johnny Moeller - BlooGaLoo! (With Kim Wilson, Lou Ann Barton, Shawn Pittman)

Size: 101,4 MB
Time: 35:38
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2010
Styles: Texas Blues
Art: Front

01. Bloogaloo (3:11)
02. I'm Movin' On Up (3:29)
03. Trick Bag (3:42)
04. Got A Feelin' (2:14)
05. I'm Stuck On You (2:25)
06. Theme From The One-Armed Swordsman (4:22)
07. Everybody's Got To Cry Sometime (4:07)
08. Raise Your Hands (3:16)
09. Well Goodbye Baby (2:43)
10. Shufflin' Around (3:16)
11. Tease Me Baby (2:48)

Austin isn't a town that takes its blues lightly, much less its blues guitar heroes, so the fact that Austinite Johnny Moeller not only cut his teeth at legendary Austin blues club Antone's, but was mentored and touted as the next Stevie Ray by club owner Clifford Antone himself, should speak volumes. Moeller also happens to be the guitarist for the Fabulous Thunderbirds, who have no small reputation in Austin themselves, but he ventures out on his own on BlooGaLoo!. Moeller gets vocal assists from a couple of Texas blues titans as well -- Thunderbirds singer Kim Wilson and LouAnn Barton. Wilson rips it up on supercharged versions of East Texas bluesman Frankie Lee Sims' "Well Goodbye Baby" and Jesse Anderson's ‘60s Chicago blues nugget "Got a Feelin'," while Barton burns in a sassy duet with Moeller on "I'm Stuck on You" and Earl King's "Everybody's Got to Cry Sometime." Moeller takes a few lead vocals on BlooGaLoo!, but he doesn't pretend to be an earth-shaking singer -- his guitar is the real star of the album. One of Moeller's greatest gifts as an axe slinger is his tasteful, economical phrasing. Having learned from the best, he understands that you can say more with one well-placed note than a feverish flurry of misfires. Add to that a visceral tone that seems to give Moeller's every riff a sense of urgency, and you begin to understand why he's emerged as a six-string hotshot in a town that's been all about guitar heroes for decades. ~Review by James Allen

Thanks to Marc.
BlooGaLoo!

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Shawn Pittman - Undeniable

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 43:27
Size: 99.5 MB
Styles: Electric Texas blues
Year: 2010
Art: Front

[3:14] 1. Hard To Hold On
[3:48] 2. Young Girl
[3:54] 3. Change Of Heart
[2:24] 4. Who's Your Man
[4:16] 5. The Hard Way
[4:04] 6. Somebody, Please
[5:30] 7. Righteous Woman
[4:25] 8. Sucker For Love
[4:25] 9. Blues For Juanita
[2:59] 10. Mindin' My Own Business
[4:23] 11. Lookin' Good

This is Shawn Pittman's eighth release of no nonsense-Texas blues. If you like house-rockin blues , this is one CD you don't want to overlook.

One of the most powerful artists on the blues scene, Shawn Pittman has it covered on every level: singer, guitarist, songwriter, performer, and producer. Born in 1974 in Talahina, Oklahoma, the then-capital of the Choctaw Nation, and raised outside Oklahoma City, in Norman, Pittman got an early start in music. Inspired by the boogie-woogie piano stylings of his grandmother, and by his grandfather’s guitar picking, Shawn took up piano at age eight, following that with the drums, before concentrating on guitar at 14. Introduced to the blues by lifelong friend Bracken Hale, who to this day remains a regular co-writer, Pittman quickly progressed through Jimmy Reed’s rhythmic foundations to Albert King’s lead guitar style, along the way absorbing the approaches of touchstone artists like Magic Sam, Otis Rush, Buddy Guy, Muddy Waters, Hubert Sumlin, Jimmy Rogers, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Frankie Lee Sims, the Vaughan Brothers, and Albert Collins. He can also discuss and reproduce the styles – and the dustier corners of the catalogs – of such artists as Lowell Fulson, Jerry McCain, Lazy Lester, Robert Nighthawk, Chuck Berry, Hound Dog Taylor, and Ike Turner.

Pittman is the rare artist who intuitively balances genuine creativity with a deep reverence for those who paved the way. “There just aren’t people around anymore that can do things like Howlin’ Wolf or Guitar Slim or Albert King did,” he says. “Those guys created their own thing and had people playing with them who played that stuff naturally. We will never see that again. The only thing to hope for is that musicians will still discover those guys and continue to be influenced by them.” Extending that tradition in a meaningful way is at the core of his work.

Undeniable

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Shawn PITTMAN - Full Circle

Styles: Modern Electric Blues, Texas Blues
Recorded: 2000/2001
Released: 2001
File: mp3 @ 320 k/s
Size: 110.23 MB
Time: 50:18
Art: Front

1. New King In Town (3:27)
2. Runnin' Shoes (4:29)
3. I Smell Trouble (7:22)
4. Distress Signal (3:39)
5. It's Your Turn (5:04)
6. One Of These Days (3:41)
7. Can't Take That Away (6:24)
8. It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry (3:34)
9. One Thing On My Mind (3:54)
10. Hell Or High Water (3:54)
11. Movin' (4:50)

Personnel: Shawn PITTMAN - Guitars, Vocals
Riley Osborne - Keyboards
Tommy Shannon - Bass
Chris Layton - Drums

Notes: Texas-based singer, songwriter and guitarist Shawn Pittman attended the Albert King / Jimmie Vaughan school of blues guitar playing. He's not flashy, and he realizes the spaces between the notes are as important as the notes themselves. Tone and melody are just as important, to Pittman's way of thinking, than fast and flashy runs up and down the guitar neck. By the time he was 28, Pittman had recorded and released three albums that showcase mostly his own original material, occasionally reinvigorating the work of others, such as his cover of Bob Dylan's "It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry" on his 2001 release, "Full Circle."

'Full Circle' showcase a mature songwriter with something to say, deep, tone-conscious guitar playing, and a fine voice. On 'Full Circle', Pittman is backed by a short who's-who of Austin-area musicians, including Tommy Shannon and Chris Layton from Stevie Ray Vaughan's Double Trouble on bass and drums, as well as Riley Osborne on Hammond B-3 and keyboards.

                                                                     Full Circle
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