J Shogren & the Shainghai'd

Music for your inner grifter. 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. 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, J was a party to the Nobel Peace Prize as a member of the United Nations Team working on climate change. Since making a splash overseas since his '07 debut. Shogren is getting press across a wide field: "Blending more styles than we can list here Shogren somehow ties it all together for his own unique sound. Thoughtful and larger than life songs set to a hard acoustic background make for some exciting listening. He's traveled the world and the stories are plentiful in these grooves. At the end of the day though it's Americana at its best." - VILLAGE RECORDS "Like a garden full of wildflowers...there's something undeniably endearing about Shogren's ramshackle ramblings." - Performing Songwriter, Jan 2009