The Reverend Shawn Amos
Also known as the Reverend Shawn Amos, Shawn Amos is a singer, songwriter, and producer with a style that alternates blues, roots rock, country, and gospel. After releasing his first full-length, Whitey McFearsun, in 1996, he made his label debut with his third album, Harlem, in 2000. It featured members of Crazy Horse and the Jayhawks. After establishing himself as a solo artist, he also became known as a multi-faceted label and marketing executive, among other enterprises, while continuing to release music. He delivered his seventh album, Breaks It Down, in 2018 before collaborating on the 2020 blues release Blue Sky with his newly formed backing band the Brotherhood.
Amos was born in New York City in 1967 to nightclub singer Shirl-ee May (Shirlee Ellis) and Wally Amos, founder of cookie brand Famous Amos. Raised mostly in Los Angeles, he returned to New York to study film as a college student, but segued from screenwriting to songwriting in the early '90s. After releasing the albums Whitey McFearsun and Be Real in 1996 and 1997, he signed with Unbreakable Records. Inspired by a museum exhibit dedicated to the Harlem Renaissance, his label debut, Harlem, was released in 2000. It featured guest appearances by the Jayhawks' Mark Olson and Crazy Horse guitarist Poncho Sampedro. The more acoustic-leaning In Between followed in 2002.
Amos then took a job overseeing the A&R department of Rhino's Shout! Factory, the label that would eventually release his fifth album, Thank You Shirl-ee May (A Love Story). It arrived in 2005, two years after his mother's death. Amos continued as vice president of Music & Original Content for the label through projects by William Shatner and Susanna Hoffs, while releasing his own material including the 2007 singles "Burned" (featuring Matthew Sweet) and "Long Time Gone" (with Julie Miller).
In the several years that passed before Amos' next album, among other events, he divorced, became an ordained minister, took a position as artistic director for Herb Alpert's Vibrato Jazz Grill in Los Angeles, and wrote an autobiographical serial for The Huffington Post. He also adopted the persona the Reverend Shawn Amos, issuing an EP under the name in 2014. The album Loves You followed in 2015 on the Put Together label and included guests such as the Blind Boys of Alabama and Missy Andersen. He returned in 2018 with his seventh LP, Breaks It Down. A contemporary protest album, it included performances by friend and Blues Brothers drummer Steve Jordan, bassist Larry Taylor (Canned Heat, Tom Waits), and drummer Steve Potts (Booker T. & the MG's, Gregg Allman).
In 2019, Amos formed the Brotherhood with guitarist Chris "Doctor" Roberts, bassist Christopher Thomas (Terence Blanchard, Norah Jones), and drummer Brady Blade (Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris). Credited as the Reverend Shawn Amos & the Brotherhood, they delivered Blue Sky in 2020.
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Weight of the World
The Reverend Shawn Amos, The Brotherhood
Blues - Lançado por Shawn Amos, under exclusive license to Immediate Family em 14 de jan. de 2022
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Thank You Shirl-ee May (A Love Story)
Country - Lançado por Unbreakable em 19 de dez. de 2005
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Get in the Dansbana (Live in Sweden)
The Reverend Shawn Amos, The Brotherhood
Blues - Lançado por Shawn Amos, under exclusive license to Immediate Family em 21 de abr. de 2023
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Everybody Wants To Be My Friend
Blues - Lançado por Shawn Amos, under exclusive license to Immediate Family em 15 de abr. de 2022
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Ain't Gonna Name Names
Blues - Lançado por Shawn Amos, under exclusive license to Immediate Family em 12 de mai. de 2017
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I Need to Get Loving
The Reverend Shawn Amos, The Brotherhood
Blues - Lançado por Shawn Amos, under exclusive license to Immediate Family em 20 de fev. de 2021
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The Pity and the Pain (On Your Knees Remix)
Dance - Lançado por Shawn Amos, under exclusive license to Immediate Family em 2 de jul. de 2020
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2017
Blues - Lançado por Shawn Amos, under exclusive license to Immediate Family em 17 de nov. de 2017
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Hold Back (Stockholm Remix)
Dance - Lançado por Shawn Amos, under exclusive license to Immediate Family em 13 de nov. de 2020
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Santa Claus Is Gonna Make It Right
Christmas Music - Lançado por Shawn Amos, under exclusive license to Immediate Family em 1 de dez. de 2014
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Long Time Gone
Country - Lançado por Unbreakable Records em 24 de set. de 2007
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Freedom Suite: (We've Got To) Come Together
Blues - Lançado por Shawn Amos, under exclusive license to Immediate Family em 16 de jan. de 2018
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