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Career Highlights Has played, toured and/or recorded with: * JOHN MELLENCAMP
* THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO Press Pollstar Interview (January 2000) Quotes “I was blown away…I know when I hear star quality and you radiate with that. …I would love the opportunity to work with you and your very impressive personal and professional family”. ~Clive Davis, President - Arista Records “…the most impressive debut by a blues artist since Stevie Ray Vaughan's Texas Flood. Shannon sings with the brassiness of Bonnie Raitt, writes liked a funked-up Sheryl Crow and plays guitar as if she's channeling both SRV and Jimi Hendrix…(Shannon is) the best argument for reincarnation aside from the Dalai Lama himself” ~ Vic Garbarini, Playboy Magazine “I heard Hard To Make A Stand on the radio and loved it”. ~ Sheryl Crow - Read Sheryl Crow's Letter to Shannon! “The biggest buzz belonged to blues rocker Shannon Curfman, who drew an ecstatic response from a packed house at the Fox Theatre. She will be this year's breakout, without a doubt. It was the biggest opening act since Counting Crows [in 1993]”. ~ Kent Zimmerman, Gavin (speaking at Triple A radio station summit in Boulder , CO , 1999) “Scorching blues guitar and gritty female vocals from a wunderkind who sounds like the younger sister of Jonny Lang. But Lang would probably feel a little heat from the competition -- Curfman was only thirteen when she recorded her debut, yet her singing and playing have the soul of someone many years her senior…. Curfman speaks eloquently through her guitar. She's got a crazy skill for melody and an ability to extract real meaning …and with the help of a top-shelf band, she turns in an introductory statement that makes you want to hear more. Her instrumental mastery is undeniable”. ~ Rolling Stone “As far as young guitarists go, there's this girl in Minneapolis named Shannon Curfman . She does the old Chaka Khan funky blues kind of stuff. She's only fourteen or fifteen, and she scares me”. ~Jonny Lang “OK, Britney Spears - take your tarty makeup and schoolgirl vixen outfits and go home. A real woman-child has arrived, and she can mop the floor with you”. ~ Gemma Tarlach , Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10/02/99 “Curfman is miles ahead of her colleagues in vocal prowess... By the end of the night, it didn't matter how old she was. She was just brilliant, period." -- Times Union , Albany , NY July 19, 2000 . “Perhaps the most extreme entry in the ranks of white, teen blues players hailing from the culturally barren Midwest , Curfman represents true girl power”. ~Yahoo! / Launch “How does someone so young write songs with so much life packed in them”? ~CNN, Worldbeat “Loud Guitars, Big Suspicions makes it clear that Curfman has her own voice, one that's a little bolder and gutsier than Lang's. Throughout the record, her singing is impassioned and playing is fiery”. ~Billboard “Loud Guitars, Big Suspicions may well be the debut of the next queen of blues guitar." - Genevieve Williams, Amazon.com. |
