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""A female Tom Waits""

"A female Tom Waits" - Linda Kordek, The Agency Group


"America The Beautiful - One of the best songs..."

"One of the best songs I've heard all year!" - Russell Paris, Host, Russ & Julie's House Concerts


"Ride with her, you'll enjoy the trip!"

Britta Lee Shain sings with grit and passion, some of the colors you don't get as often as you want to from the palette of singer/songwriters. I like the way she takes on the discovery of where a relationship is heading by the road it travels, literally or metaphorically. Ride with her, you'll enjoy the trip!" - Sonnie Brown, Host of SongTown on Public Radio KCBX


"America The Beautiful - One of the best songs..."

"One of the best songs I've heard all year!" - Russell Paris, Host, Russ & Julie's House Concerts


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Britta Lee Shain

Between The River And The Road

Howling Coyotes, self-titled CD

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Britta Lee Shain was born with a transistor radio in one hand and a pen in the other. Her mother was a professional singer turned actress whose singing credits included Radio City Music Hall. Her Uncle was a noted Brill Building songwriter and music publisher who, in her youth, would send her the latest 45 rpm records hot off the press. At six, she began playing classical and popular piano. At twenty, a James Taylor concert at the Troubadour (with opening act Carole King) inspired her to buy her first guitar.

Coming of age in the late 60’s and spending pivotal years in both Berkeley and Los Angeles, her early musical tastes were edgy and varied: Janis Joplin, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. In the 1990’s she studied creative writing for seven years with famed author of City of Night and Penn Lifetime Achievement Award Winner John Rechy. After trying her hand at screenwriting, novel writing and even writing a memoir about her travels with a rock and roll band, in 2001 she turned her creative energy to songwriting.

Up until her recent solo stint, she could most often be seen performing with her San Diego based band, the Howling Coyotes. Britta Lee Shain's first solo CD--Between The River And The Road--was released in October 2010 and has already enjoyed airplay across the country and around the world. It was produced by legendary multi-instrumentalist Freddy Koella (Bob Dylan, K.D. Lang).

Dark, edgy and political. Not for the faint of heart.

INFLUENCES:

Lucinda Williams, Eliza Gilkyson, Mary Gauthier, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan and Tom Waits.

Videos are available at YouTube and at www.myspace.com/brittaleeshain