Shawn Pittman

Texas-based singer, songwriter, and guitarist Shawn Pittman was born October 13th, 1974 in a small town in Oklahoma. He grew up listening to Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry and his grandmother playing stride piano. As a teenager, he listened to Jimmy Reed, Elmore James and Albert King and he has been hooked on blues guitar ever since. Shawn is not flashy, and he realizes the spaces between the notes are as important as the notes themselves. Tone and melody are just as important to Pittman's way of thinking, as fast and flashy runs up and down the guitar neck.

When it comes to CD output, there are three levels: productive, prolific, and Shawn Pittman. Shawn, who first broke nationally in the late 90s, has released two CDs in each year, 2009 and 2010. His latest, "Undeniable" is, incredibly, the eighth album for a guy only 35 years old! It contains ten of eleven original songs and is titled this way, according to Pittman, because when you hear this record, you can't deny the fact that it's basically good blues. I don't use any pedals, I get my tone from my fingers, my guitar and the amp… "I write and sing my own songs". Pittman and Stuart Sullivan did the producing.

Also launched in2010, in both Europe and the USA, is his seventh release, properly titled "Too Hot"(not a slow Blues song on it!). It was recorded in 2009 in a studio in Italy on Pittman and the band's only day off from his tenth tour on this side of the pond. They recorded "live" in the studio and knocked out 15 songs! Previously, Feeling Good Productions, an agency owned by Tano Ro based in Milan (Italy) had released a compilation of Pittman's first five albums "Movin and Groovin".

Most recently it's the record that was recorded in 2000 with his friends the Moeller brothers (The Fabulous Thunderbirds). The record was released in Europe and is his 9th record. It was only supposed to be used for promotion in Europe by a booking agency but seems to have gotten out a little further than expected.

Shawn Pittman performed in Hondarribia in 2011 together with The Mannish Boys.