Shawn James is a singer / songwriter from Chicago who taps into blues, folk, and soul. He performs both as a solo artist and leader of his band The Shapeshifters.

His solo output includes records Shadows (2012), Deliverance (2014), On the Shoulders of Giants (2016), The Dark & The Light (2019), The Guardian Collection (2020) and A Place in the Unknown (2022).

He has released five studio albums with The Shapeshifters, including The Wolf (2013), The Bear (2013), The Hawk (2014), The Covers (2014) and The Gospel According to Shawn James & The Shapeshifters (2015).

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Artist Bio

Shawn James’ voice is a force of nature, a musical preacher to a flock that accepts everyone, a combination of the gospel choirs he sang with as a youngster and his training in classical music and opera. Born and raised on the South Side of Chicago, James’ timeless sound is steeped in blues legends like Robert Johnson and Son House, forever at the crossroads of damnation and redemption, the two inextricably woven into the fabric of his songs.

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The Dark & the Light, his first album for L.A.-based indie label Parts + Labor Records, marks a creative leap forward for the 32-year-old troubadour. James annually tours more than 150 dates around the world and has released some 70 songs over the past five years, both on his own and as part of his “more raucous, rock” band the Shapeshifters, a loose group of musicians formed in Fayetteville, AR, which served as his temporary home before a recent move to the west coast.

Pointing to “authentic” performers like Tom Waits (“He has an impeccable ‘no bullshit’ compass”), soul singers like Otis Redding, Sam Cooke or Bill Withers, and the old blues icons who inspired him, James explains, “They weren’t precious about what they did; they didn’t put themselves on a pedestal. I want my music to be respected, but I’ll still sit down at the bar to have a beer with you. My goal is to make music that stands the test of time.”

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