After sharing in the creation of NewFound Road and spending a dozen years guiding the quartet’s transformation from a purely Gospel group into one of Bluegrass music’s most distinctive and admired ensembles, acclaimed singer Tim Shelton traded the safety of familiar ground and an established career to head for new musical territory – performing solo. Tim will grace the stage of the historic Thrasher in support of new cd: Jackson Browne Revisited.
“I’ve always loved and appreciated all kinds of music, and it was almost nagging at me that I wanted to do something else. But NewFound Road was busy in Bluegrass, and we’d finally gotten to the point where we were comfortable, so it seemed a little silly to change. But then my mandolinist of seven years announced he was ready for a break from traveling. It caught me off guard. But I thought about it, and literally the next day, I decided, I’m done. I didn’t want to deal with reinventing NewFound Road, I’d been wanting to do other things musically, to go other places, and so I thought, now is the time.”
“I just want to make music that isn’t necessarily traditional Bluegrass. I love it, but I also love James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Rock, hard Rock, traditional Country—all of those. Just music. I think that people listen to the way I sing, and they assume I must be ‘going Country,’ but that’s not the direction I’m going. The vocals sound country because it’s me, but I’m not setting out to try to make some huge-sounding, very produced record. I want it to sound good, I want the music to be played right, but I don’t want a wall of sound—I’m not trying to make a Rascal Flatts or Jason Aldean record,” said Shelton.
“That’s apparent on his latest album — a tribute to Jackson Browne. Jackson Browne Revisited has Shelton performing some of his favorite songs from the vast catalog of Browne. Shelton’s interpretations of such classics as “Doctor My Eyes,” “My Opening Farewell,” and “Late For The Sky,” show why he is simply one of the best vocalists most people have never heard of.” – The Bluegrass Situation.
Generously sponsored by Butzin-Marchant, this performance is also support by grants from the Wisconsin Arts Board with funds from the State of Wisconsin and the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Oshkosh Area Community Foundation. Accommodations provided by The Greenway House.
