Artist:Adam Shannon

Adam no longer resides in a basement, somewhere on the Gold Coast of Australia. Due to the almost success of “From the Basement” he now has a place around the corner, with a window. He combines guitar ‘centric tunes with road worn and lived in storytelling, Digging deep and serving genre defying, Roots, Country Blues music, his sound has been described as Metaphysical Blues. Adam grew up living a nomadic lifestyle, deeply influenced by the multitude of music playing in the background. Guitar based singer/songwriters, Bob Dylan, Kris Kristofferson, John Prine, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard and James Taylor filled his young days on the road along with instrumental work by Django Rienhardt, BB King, John Lee Hooker, Chet Atkins, Mark Knoffler and Jerry Reed. At twelve, Adam was given a beaten classical Guitar, dragged from a neighbors barn, more splinters than wood, missing four strings, a couple of frets and a row of tuning heads. After a year a cheap beaten twelve string was added to ...