• Login
  • Register

OffBeat Magazine

  • Home
  • Issue
  • News
    • Online News
    • Louisiana On Tour
    • Blogs
    • Musicians Birthdays
  • Live Music
    • Add a New Listing
  • Reviews
    • Album Reviews
    • Submit
    • New Releases
  • Watch
  • Listen
  • Food
  • Weekly Beat
  • Archive
  • Shop
  • Advertise
  • Donate
  • Subscribe!
  • The OnBeat Sessions
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Pinterest
  • Flickr
  • YouTube
  • FourSquare
  • RSS Feed
Event Search

My Music with Shawn Williams

August 30, 2017 by: Laura DeFazio

“Some folks say they like my music because they can tell I don’t really have a filter. That could stem from me not being able to sit there and write a song if it takes me more than ten minutes... ADD? Or because if I do sit there longer, I wake up and start saying, ‘Wait, that’s too dark, too cheesy, too sexual, personal, etc.’ I don’t want to do that. If I’m going to write music, it needs to be raw. It needs to come from the heart, unfiltered.

[caption id="attachment_285567" align="alignr...

Continue Reading This With an OffBeat Subscription

Subscribe now!

Already a member? Sign in

ShadowShawn Williams

Post navigation

Previous PostSoundcheck: Five Questions with Kathryn Rose Wood, singer-songwriter and music therapistNext PostPaz Fest: Celebrating Joni Mitchell at the Civic
  • About OffBeat
  • Advertise
  • Newsletter
  • Best of the Beat Award Winners
  • Contact Us
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Pinterest
  • Flickr
  • YouTube
  • FourSquare
  • RSS Feed

400 Esplanade Avenue (in the New Orleans Jazz Museum),
New Orleans, LA 70116

[email protected]504-944-4300

icon

© 2025 OffBeat MagazineWebsite by Westguard Solutions

Offbeat Magazine
  • ISSUE
  • LIVE MUSIC
  • VIDEOS
  • SUBSCRIBE
  • SHOP
Create a new list