American Holly

J Shogren | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 2, 2008)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: CDBY
• ASIN: B001MYIV7W
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #521,860 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Music for your inner grifter

Hard acoustic roots music from a life lived in loud proportions. American Holly is the second release from Wyoming's favorite applied philosopher J Shogren, who made a splash overseas since his '07 debut, Jahamericana.

Shogren is getting press across a wide field:

"Brilliant storyteller from Wyoming. Hard Boiled, sometimes dark humorous stories delivered with a voice that clearly have lived through them." Lennart Persson, Rootsy

"Blending more styles than we can list here Shogren ... He's traveled the world and the stories are plentiful in these grooves. At the end of the day though it's Americana at its best."- Village Records.

Top 20 americana cds in 2008-Rootsville (Belgium)

#13 Feb 09 & #15 Jan 2009 on the EuroAmericana Chart

#16 on F.A.R. Chart for Dec 2008

#41 on the Folk Music Radio Chart for Feb 2009

#150 or so on the Americana Radio charts in Jan/Feb

"Like a garden full of wildflowers...there's something undeniably endearing about Shogren's ramshackle ramblings." Performing Songwriter, Feb 2009

"American Holly is an absolute masterpiece." Moors Magazine Jan 2009.

"There are two other times I can remember when a singer's voice prompted in me the same reaction I had when I first heard J Shogren's. Those were when I first heard Randy Newman and Leon Redbone. I had to keep looking at the album cover to assure myself that the singer was indeed white. Shogren's voice sounds like one of those great bluesmen from ninety years ago. American Holly is produced by J Shogren and D Tinker; mastered by J Wilson (Richard Thompson, The Gourds, Joe Ely, Bob Mould); featuring Grammy winner Sally van Meter on resonator, fingerpikkin maniac Jalan Crossland on banjo, the dynamo Shaun Kelly on bass, and country blues chanteuse Birgit Burke on backing vocals.

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