Shannon Hudson

Taylor Wallace - KUTX Austin The new album from Leander singer-songwriter Shannon Hudson, Cross Stitch, finds him plugged in. Electric guitars are center stage this time for an album poignantly built around the dissolution of communication, the self-fulfilling prophecy of the isolation it creates and perpetuates, and a reckoning with the state of our country and the atrocities within. The single Black Roses hits on this last point, a frank song about our neighbors being pulled from the streets and families torn apart. Apricot Magazine Texas singer and songwriter Shannon Hudson embraces that exact electric liberation on his monumental late September ten-track album titled Cross Stitch. Marking his most fully electric, muscular record to date, the album trades delicate folk intimacy for overdriven Gibson Les Paul riffs, loose barroom rock and roll swagger, and a fearless willingness to let the guitars completely run the room. Obliq Music Taste I need his record in my collection.