{"id":6668,"date":"2012-06-13T02:06:22","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T09:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=6668"},"modified":"2012-06-13T02:06:22","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T09:06:22","slug":"shannon-labrie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2012\/06\/shannon-labrie\/","title":{"rendered":"SHANNON LABRIE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6673\" title=\"Shannon-Labrie-Q-and-A-May-2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Shannon-Labrie-Q-and-A-May-2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Shannon-Labrie-Q-and-A-May-2012.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Shannon-Labrie-Q-and-A-May-2012-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1><strong>SHANNON LABRIE<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>HOMETOWN:<\/strong> Lincoln, Neb.<br \/>\n<strong>INFLUENCES:<\/strong> Bob Dylan, Lauryn Hill, James Taylor<br \/>\n<strong>ALBUM:<\/strong> <em>Shannon Labrie <\/em>EP, out now<br \/>\n<strong>WEBSITE:<\/strong> shannonlabrie.com<\/p>\n<p>The daughter of an opera-singing mother and\u00a0guitar-playing father, Shannon Labrie took to music early\u2014she astounded her first vocal coach with her four-octave range, and began writing classical piano pieces as a child. She got her first guitar at around 10 and began learning chords from her dad, who died from cancer when she was only 14. \u201cI was in a dark place for a while after that,\u201d she recalls. \u201cI just wanted to leave.\u201d She found solace in music, developing her skills as a player\u00a0and songwriter. She performed across the U.S., eventually\u00a0snagging an artist-development contract that brought her to\u00a0Nashville in 2009. \u201cI write in many different styles,\u201d she says, \u201cbut\u00a0living and working in Nashville has made me fall in love with country \u00a0music.\u201d In 2010 her song \u201cCalls Me Home\u201d was snapped up for use\u00a0on TV\u2019s <em>One Tree Hill <\/em>and released as a single. She released her\u00a0self-titled debut EP in March.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SHANNON LABRIE HOMETOWN: Lincoln, Neb. INFLUENCES: Bob Dylan, Lauryn Hill, James Taylor ALBUM: Shannon Labrie EP, out now WEBSITE: shannonlabrie.com The daughter of an opera-singing mother and\u00a0guitar-playing father, Shannon Labrie took to music early\u2014she astounded her first vocal coach with her four-octave range, and began writing classical piano pieces as a child. She got her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[83],"tags":[3592,1624,3952,3754,3950,3951,10160],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6668"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6674,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6668\/revisions\/6674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}