Tony James Shevlin will be releasing a new album on Oh Mercy! Records  May 31, 2014 titled “Songs From the Last Chance Saloon”. Tony is an award winning singer/songwriter with a career spanning 30 years. His music brings to mind some of the great storytellers like Bob Dylan, Neil Young and Randy Newman. He can tout one of his songs selected as the ‘International Anthem of Peace’ chosen by Amnesty International. He has worked with some amazing musicians over the years, and written for some big names too, like REM.

For this album, Tony wanted to see how some of his songs would stand up in an acoustic realm. He reached out to his fans and asked what songs they would like him to revisit, the response he got was surprising. “Heart and the High Moral Ground was suggested by a guy from Ireland, and Paradise South Ealing from a lady in Spain. I don’t think I’ve performed either of those since the 1990s.”

He has also included ‘Cut Me (I’ll Bleed Like Any Man)’ which has beautiful, bluesy piano and some great lyrics. ‘Run Until We Drop’ has a nice beat, and I can picture people on a dance floor kicking a little two-step action with this song. ‘I Wish You Well’ is a favorite, the slower tempo and acoustic sound works well on this song.
This album is chock full of great work and worthy of being in your music catalog.

Tony will be performing 10 dates here in Nashville, Tennessee to promote the new album.

….what better place to
try them out than in the home of great songwriting – Nashville, Tennessee

If you can make any of these shows, do so, they won’t disappoint!