Scott Shea at the Duncan Showroom

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Thursday, April 16th, 2015
8:00 PM

Scott Shea performs at the Duncan Showroom on April 16. With special guest Reid Williams.

Tickets are available in advance for $12 at www.showroomproductions.ca/buy-tickets and for $15 at the door.

Scott Shea is a honed singer songwriter, music storyteller currently living on the west coast of Canada. The son of legendary guitarist Red Shea – known for his distinctive pick work and memorable leads for Gordon Lightfoot. Scott was immersed in music from the earliest of ages writing his first songs when he was nine, composing melodies and verses in the backseat of his father’s car where he found the solitude and resonance of the guitar inspiring and where he taught himself to play. By the time he was 12, he was garnering public speaking awards related to, not surprisingly, storytelling, and in his teens was winning numerous songwriting competitions. In his late teen’s he moved to upstate New York where his winding down on the weekend was spent busking on the board walks of Ocean Grove and Asbury Park, New Jersey. After returning home he formed a band with his brother and partnered in the successful duo The Shaes. They provided a song for the soundtrack of the film Universal Soldier II: Brothers in Arms. The pair also opened shows for Iris Dement, Blue Rodeo and Big Sugar, and released an album called Zero to One. The undertones of a wandering spirit in Scott lured him away from it all in his early 30′s and took him through the remote regions of South East Asia, India, Nepal the Middle East and Northern Africa. Returning home from aimless spiritual pursuits and a new respect for the fragility of life Scott emptied his backpack full of sand and filled his days with what truly mattered…

Shea’s debut solo album, Let it Storm (2014), distills the richness of his own take on life. A ten-song suite of mood and texture, Let It Storm grounds the listener in lyric landscapes of emotions, and the poetry of the deeply felt—and keenly observed—nuances of everyday living. The album was developed during a reflective period following his father’s death and composed on the same guitar his father used in all of the early Lightfoot hits (If You Could Read My Mind, Carefree Highway, etc), and pays homage to the foundational essences of songwriting. It is an emotionally charged, sometimes heart-rending, journey into themes of love, loss, self-doubt and redemption. The songs were recorded at the renowned Arlyn Studios (sister studio with Pedernales owned and operated by Willie Nelson, Freddy and Lisa Fletcher ) in Austin, Texas, and produced by Gordie Johnson (Big Sugar, Sit Down Servant ). The album features Willie’s sister Bobbie Nelson on keyboard and her son Freddie Fletcher (Johnny Cash, Billy Joe Shaver, Austin City Limits) on drums.

Scott will be touring his record across Canada this spring as an acoustic trio with Adam Dobres ( Ruth Moody, Wailin’ Jenny’s) and Blake Palm.

Scott’s songs have been categorized as folk/roots/Americana with the emphasis on folk/roots and compared to an unplugged Fleetwood Mac or Crowded House, lyrically.
With the blood of his father running through his veins, it’s not surprising that instrumentally he has been compared to Gordon Lightfoot. That being said, it is hard to compare him to anyone, Scott Shea’s music remains resolutely his own.

http://www.scottsheasongs.com