“I’ve had lunch with Neil Simon and dinner with Yoko Ono (okay, so there were about twelve of us). I once celebrated Easter Sunday at Timothy Leary’s where I sat next to him chatting, unknowingly eating salad dressing that had been laced with LSD. I met Bob Dylan in the mid 80s and in the fall of 1987 joined his entourage on a two-month European Tour with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. The rest, as they say, is herstory.” ~ Britta Lee Shain

About

Britta Lee Shain

Britta Lee Shain with long hair wearing a black hat, blue jacket, and turquoise jewelry, holding an acoustic guitar against a plain white background.

Dubbed “A female Tom Waits” by Linda Kordek of the Agency Group, she is often accompanied by world famous musicians who have toured with the likes of Dylan, K.D. Lang, The Spencer Davis Group, Rita Coolidge and more. “I'm lucky to have a lot of great musician friends who like to sit in with me,” Britta says. “I call them my Accidental Posse.” Her debut album, Between The River And The Road (2010) – produced by legendary multi-instrumentalist Freddy Koella (Bob Dylan) – has enjoyed airplay worldwide.

Britta Lee Shain’s highly acclaimed memoir, Seeing The Real You At Last (Life And Love On The Road With Bob Dylan) was published in May, 2016 by Jawbone Press in the UK and the US. There is also a French edition. Her latest CD, What The Heart Wants, features a song written for Bob Dylan, a song written with Bob Dylan and Dylan’s latter-day hit, Make You Feel My Love.

For deeper insights into what makes Britta’s music and writings unique, please browse her Interview Page where journalists from around the globe have posed tough questions, and Britta’s unfiltered responses have proven to be poignant, honest, timely and revealing.

Britta Lee Shain’s Seeing The Real You At Last (Life And Love On The Road With Bob Dylan), as well as her CDs. are available online, in stores, and on this website

Britta Lee Shain was born with a transistor radio in one hand and a pen in the other. Her mother, a professional singer and actress whose singing credits include Radio City Music Hall wanted her to be a doctor. Her uncle (by marriage) was noted bandleader and Brill Building songwriter and music publisher Teddy Powell. At six, she began playing classical and popular piano. At twenty, a James Taylor concert at West Hollywood's famed Troubadour (with opening act Carole King) inspired her to buy her first guitar. Coming of age in the 1960s, she spent pivotal years at UC Berkeley, where her early musical tastes were shaped by Janis Joplin, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan. In the 1990s she studied creative writing with famed author of City of Night, Penn Lifetime Achievement Award Winner John Rechy. After trying her hand at screenwriting, novel writing, and even writing an as yet unpublished memoir about her travels with a rock and roll band, in 2001, she turned her creative energy to songwriting.