After the concert Sunday night we drove around Southaven, Mississippi looking for a place to eat and watch some football. I find the best way to soak up after-performance adrenaline and settle my nerves before bed is to inhale a large serving of chips and queso – so the search… Read More
Maybe it’s because I’m reading Grapes Of Wrath. Maybe it’s because I now travel with a banjo player. For whatever reason I woke up early this morning with a rootsy decisively Southern song in my head…a Christmas song of sorts. It’s an advent song, written from the vantage point of… Read More
I’m in Oregon this weekend with Amy Grant – which sounds like we’re on vacation together or something when, in actuality, I’m just out here speaking on behalf of Compassion at a few of her concerts. (Details here.) I sat side-stage through her whole set last night, like a wide-eyed… Read More
Songwriting is a craft. As in any craft – ice skating, painting, public speaking, cooking – there are best practices that border on being rules. These standards sometimes define the craft. For instance, if an ice skater glides into the spotlight carrying a stick and hitting a puck she’s no… Read More
My mom was right. I should have gotten a teaching certificate along with my music degree. Thankfully though, anybody can teach anything on-line these days. I’m teaching a three-hour on-line songwriting workshop called Re:Write the morning of June 14th. Wanna learn? Those who purchase the workshop will receive a link… Read More
This new album of mine is an attempt to connect. To connect the first world to the wisdom and beauty of the third world – for the benefit of both. But also to connect two opposing theologies. Two rival gospels. One side pitches God’s salvation as hope for the soul,… Read More
Shaun Groves