Other songs, he says, cover the years spend trying to figure things out. It became my wife, my home, my family, my art, and everything I’m trying to do with my life right now.” “When I wrote that song, initially, it was for my wife, but sometimes the songs change their meaning and it became so much more. For example, the album starts with a song called “I Will Run” which has a line that says “these days it’s who I’m running to, not what I’m running from.” Shane says it sets the tone for everything. When it came time to choose, he looked closely at the lyrics to find the songs that made him feel nostalgic, as if he was reading his memoirs. “And I didn’t know what I was writing other than I was just trying to go in the room and be honest every day.” “I probably wrote over 200 songs writing this record,” he explains. He put her advice to good use and went on to teach himself to master the instrument.Īs he celebrates the release of his debut album, Shane says the 15 tracks cover his life’s journey, so far.Įlvie Shane's new album "Backslider" Courtesy of Wheelhouse Records She told me I could learn just about any Roger Miller song with those three chords.” She gave me Roger Miller’s Greatest Hits, and taught me E, A, and B, on guitar. She’d make me grilled cheese sandwiches, macaroni & cheese, and lemonade, and give me a guitar lesson. “She was 82 years old, and I would go over to her house on Saturdays and mow her yard.
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His great-grandmother taught him how to play it. The year he turned 12, Shane hauled hay and did a bunch of other odd jobs to save the money to buy his first guitar. “My dad was a truck driver, too, so I spent a lot of time on the road, listening to music riding around with him.” He’d sing with his mother in church Sunday mornings, then listen to Steve Earle, John Fogarty, and others, while helping his dad work on the car Sunday afternoons. And then, I was at church every Sunday, every Wednesday night, and every third Saturday night of the month right beside my mom, singing out of hymnals.” Particularly Steve Earle’s Guitar Town record from 86, and John Fogarty’s Blue Moon Swamp solo record from 97. “One of my very first influences was Steve Earle and John Fogarty. He had some very specific musical influences. Shane first discovered his love of music while growing up in Caneyville, Kentucky. And somebody else was like, he’s got somebody else’s eyes I’m seeing myself in. Then, somebody else said, he ain’t got my smile, it don’t bother me a bit. “And I said, ‘Dude, he’s my boy.’ And Nick was like, let’s just write that. Shane remembers Columbia looking at him and saying tell me about your son. The songwriters started talking about the post. “Somebody had sent me a post on Facebook the night before,” Shane recalls, “that said, ‘I don’t have a stepson, I have a son that was born before I met him.’ And that post really kind of got my attention.” It was during a songwriting session five years ago now, that he and fellow songwriters Russell Sutton, Nick Columbia, and Lee Starr, started working on the song that would change his life. And when he did, he starting he started going to Nashville to write songs. Back then, he was playing music and “partying too much.” When he met Mandi he stopped the music and the partying, to commit to building a better life for his new family. She was a single mother with a five-year old son, and he fell in love with both of them. I would highly recommend this dollhouse to anyone who is looking for a dollhouse for their kids.Shane met his wife, Mandi, when he was attending Western University in Bowling Green, Kentucky. You will need your own to put it together. The only thing it did not come with is a small screwdriver. The playhouse even comes with a bunch of furniture and coloring markers, so you are all set to start playing as soon as it is put together. The playhouse seems to be made out of high quality material, and should last a long time. It has huge coloring book, that you fit into the back of the playhouse so you can choose different scenes you have colored. But my kids really enjoyed working on it together. I could have probably put it together faster if it was just me, and not my kids.
This made it fun and easy for my kids to also help put it together. In addition the pieces are marked with a number. However, after I started putting it together I realized it was not that hard. I thought it would take me a long time to put it together. Fun Dollhouse When I first opened the box the dollhouse was in, I was overwhelmed by the pieces.