Biography

Music for your Inner Grifter:

"Brilliant storyteller from Wyoming." Lennart Persson, Rootsy

"Split the difference between Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan, and while you won't have everything you need to know about J Shogren, you will have at least a place to start." Jeremy Clark, Rambles.NET

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.

His adventures have taken him from days as a trapper to an endowed professor. He splits his time between Wyoming and Sweden, where he worked last year- unlikely as it sounds - as the King’s Professor. Even more riotous, he was a party to the Nobel Peace Prize as a member of the United Nations Team working on climate change. Planet, music.

Shogren is getting press across a wide field:

"Americana at its best."- Village Records.

"J. SHOGREN has a voice that’s a bit gravely and rough-hewn. Americana can absorb that if the songs hold up, and on “American Holly”, they do just that." The Quiet Corner by Robert Barry Francos, http://www.jerseybeat.com/quietcorner.html

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
#250 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, Jan 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."
Oliver di Place, Feb 2009
http://oliverdiplace.blogspot.com/2009/02/j-shogren-american-holly.html

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 Lisa Swett on backing vocals.

♣Thanks for giving us a fair hearing♣

J’s music has received airplay on:

Tap Radio, NC
Crossroads, NL
AmericanaOK, UK
Zookeeper, KZSU, Stanford University
An American Sampler, WYEP, Pittsburg
Folk Directions, CKUT, Montreal
KPFT
Folk Show, Radioactivity, WTUL
The Miller Tells Her Tale
Hootenanny Power
Americana, NL
CtlAltCountry, NL
Sunday Simcha & Traditions
Highway 61, Italy
Tuesday Night Americana Music Club, NL
PeelMusic, NL
CMR Nashville—Now that’s Americana, NL
Blue Wednesday, NL
Acoustic Rain, NL
"General Eclectic", WCVF-FM, Ithaca
Peelstar Country Club, NL
Planete Indie, BE
Upper Room, NL
Bonanza, Denmarkt
RTV Hoeksche Waard, NL
A Shake of Music, NL
Folk En Zo, NL
LON Live on Radio, NL
Songriver, NL
Landslide, NL
Roots Cafe, NL
Radiogirl, NL
WUSC
WWUH, University of Harford
NWPR, Northwest Public Radio, Wash State
Back Roads & Blue Highways, WVTF
KDNK, Carbondale
KFRC, Ft. Collins
KRCB, Santa Rosa
WETS, Johnson City
WMSR, Auburn
WVTF, Roanoke-Lynchburg
WYOU/WRRW, Williamsburg
Grass Roots Revival (KRCC)
TRADITIONS, WAMU, Washington, DC
"These Friends of Mine,"
Radio ZuSa
WMUD Folk DJ Playlist
Acoustic Planet on Erin Radio
Folk Fiasco on WDBX Carbondale, IL
The Folk Show KRFC
WSLU - The Folk Show
"General Eclectic", WCVF-FM
Sidestream
WTUL New Orleans, The Folk Show
Our Kind of Folk, WSLR
Click Your Heels Together
WMUD Folk DJ Playlist
Australia broadcasting to the North West Plains
Mahoney's new release
WMUD Folk DJ Playlist
Our Kind of Folk, February 6 2009
Folk on Sunday, no. 647
Danny Watson's Folk Show, NSW Australia Broadcasting to the North West Plains
Good Morning Folk Adelaide
"These Friends of Mine,"
Acoustic Routes
AMERICAN SAMPLER
WMUD Folk
Our Kind of Folk, WSLR Sarasota FL
WTUL New Orleans, The Folk Show
Grassroots Australia
Just Folks, WSCL & WSDL
Folk Direction Playlist
WEFT – From the Joshua Tree Inn
WFDU Traditions
Town & Country, New Zealand.
Hootenanny Power WRKF Baton Rouge
Click Your Heels Together
WBGU
Hillbilly Rockhouse
"These Friends of Mine,"
'Simple Folk' Sunday KXCI Tucson
Sunday Street
RADIO ISW-FM "Folk & Country"


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