Reviews for Britta Lee Shain’s Music

Praise for Britta Lee Shain's "What the Heart Wants" Album

  • “At some point in their careers, most songwriter-singers create one album that defines them. An album that does everything that they are and want to be. A statement replete with all facets of this art. This is Britta’s definitive statement.”

    ~ Paul Zollo, American Songwriter

  • “The title track of Britta Lee Shain’s new CD, is a song with a rare combination of substance and catchiness. Singing like a breathless Kim Karnes, she delivers a universal sentiment wrapped up in a short, memorable chorus: “The heart wants what the heart wants / the heart trumps the mind every time…”

    ~ Steve Wagner, Songwriter Square

  • “Shain’s songs are very good but it’s her voice—a naked, vulnerable thing—that sets her apart. Even when she’s turning on the vocal gravel, there’s a delicateness (sometimes to the point of trembling, as on “I Want to Be Me”) that somehow increases the sense of her commitment to her message. It’s a welcome contrast, in these days of big, “American Idol”-type voices”

    ~ Steve Wagner, Songwriter Square

  • “Britta Lee Shain’s 2016 CD, What the Heart Wants, should come with a warning label: “This album may be addictive! Shain’s unique brand of cool, bluesy folk-rock is more than that good. It is compelling”

    ~ J. Morris, Folkworks

  • “… A beautiful and hopeful album of survival and redemption”

    ~ Paul Zollo, American Songwriter

  • “Produced by guitarist/producer Edward Tree (Spencer Davis Group, Rita Coolidge), What The Heart Wants (a sometime-companion to Shain's book) features a song written for Bob Dylan, a song Shain wrote with Bob Dylan and Dylan’s latter-day hit, Make You Feel My Love …”

    May 2016 Premier Event review: Britta Lee

    Shain Does Dylan ~ Bill Berry

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Praise for "Between the River and the Road" Album

  • “On first listening to Britta Lee Shain’s new CD, Between The River And The Road, I was surprised that it was her first. World class songwriting combined with a beautiful and haunting voice, Britta folds you into her world of the scratch and scrabble landscape, driving through harsh places only to rise above with a sparkle all the more bright from the journey”

    ~ Joyce Woodson, Winner Will Rogers Academy

    of Western Artists ‘Best Female Performer” and

    “Song of the Year.”

  • Between The River And the Road is “one powerhouse of an album … sparse and haunting … creating a dark, mysterious landscape that is filled with intrigue and dramatic tension”

    ~ The BardChord

  • “A female Tom Waits”

    ~ Linda Kordek, The Agency Group

  • “A timeless album”

    ~ Johan Schoenmakers, Alt Country Forum

  • “Between The River And The Road, Shain’s first solo CD (2010), was produced by legendary multi-instrumentalist Freddy Koella (Bob Dylan, K.D. Lang), and has enjoyed airplay across the country and around the world”

  • “Britta Lee Shain sings with grit and passion. Ride with her. You’ll enjoy the trip.”

    ~Sonnie Brown, Host of Song Town

    on Public Radio KCBX

  • (Between The River and the Road, Track 7) “America The Beautiful”: “One of the best songs I’ve heard all year!”

    ~ Russell Paris, Russ & Julie’s House Concerts

  • “Britta Lee Shain sings with grit and passion, some of the colors you don't get as often as you want to from the palette of singer/songwriters. I like the way she takes on the discovery of where a relationship is heading by the road it travels, literally or metaphorically. Ride with her, you'll enjoy the trip”

    ~ Sonnie Brown, host of SongTown

    on Public Radio KCBX

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