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“…remarkable vocalist and songsmith…breaks away from the mold…Without a doubt, he’s an interesting figure…”
--Performing Songwriter Magazine
It's Here!
The new CD, "Yellow House" is finished and released. It turned out good--real good. (See below for proof.) A semi-scaled down, semi-acoustic, quasi-organic collection of sonic stories, it's got a cast of characters from honky tonk romans to cat-burgling frat boys, to an out-of-control Hollywood ingénue. (It also has more love songs than I usually write in an entire decade.)
From the Eugene Weekly:
"John Shipe never really left; he just morphs from one recording project to another. Eugene’s Shipe has made a career of creating music that straddles the line between rock and pop, from his earliest days with Nine Days Wonder and Renegade Saints to his many other manifestations. Shipe’s strength has always been his lyrical ingenuity and his genre-straddling ability. On his new solo CD, 'Yellow House,' he continues to show his strength as a fiercely independent songwriter while also collaborating with some of his dear friends.
'Yellow House' was recorded in his home studio and features performances by several of Shipe’s friends and his wife...
...Shipe finds beauty in the mundane and sings lilting melodies with a lovelorn voice. He can sing about real-life angels taking flight, casually reference pop culture, and sing about being 'an elegant failure' in a way that creates a totally endearing portrait of the artist as a young man with a sturdy heart that exists just outside of the boundaries. 'Yellow House' includes touches of country, baroque-sounding glockenspiel, backwoods-y soul, horns, and wry observations, all of which combine to make 'Yellow House' perhaps his greatest recording ever. Why Shipe hasn’t received more mainstream attention I don’t know, but this album should put to rest any doubts about his talents.
-— Vanessa Salvia
as part of the Artist Support Agreement.