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Profile
Shawn Pittman
www.shawnpittman.com
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1999 KBA Award Winner
Achievement for Blues on the Internet
Presented by the Blues Foundation
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Born in Oklahoma into a musical family, Shawn Pittman started out at an early age playing piano and drums. He soon bought a beat up acoustic guitar at a flea market, and started strumming along to Jimmy Reed albums. Things got more serious however, when he bought himself a Stratocaster and started playing electric guitar. In 1992, at the age of 17, Pittman moved to Texas where he began cutting his blues eye-teeth on the highly competitive blues stages of Dallas. He played in countless blues jams all over town and took innumerable sideman gigs until he got a taste of fronting his own band. One night he was supposed to back Fort Worth blues outlaw U.P. Wilson, but when U.P didn't show up, Pittman stepped up to the microphone and decided he liked it there. Pittman combines the fire and intensity found in many of the younger guitar slingers out there but plays with much more substance and feeling than most of the others. His guitar leads spit and hiss like grease on a hot skillet and his gripping, rhythmic chording has the propulsiveness of a seasoned drummer. He is also a naturally gifted singer with his understated vocals showing more true feeling than many performers twice his age. Pittman's intensity has been compared to a youthful Buddy Guy as he plays with the energy rush of a young rock 'n' roller, and the depth and soulfulness of a seasoned bluesman. Shawn Pittman is one dynamic blues performer and you can hear his exciting playing and singing on his sensational first release, "Burnin' Up," (1998) and his follow up "Something's Gotta Give" (1999) on Cannonball Records. Shawn will be making a special appearance after the festival on Friday night "under the tent" at the Bayfront Blues Saloon in Superior, WI.
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