Quarantine Music Video Premieres on Guitar Girl Magazine (HERE) , Featured as American Songwriter Daily Discovery (HERE)
(Nashville, Tenn. – May 1, 2020) Shannon LaBrie has released a new single, “Firewalker;” a powerful track about survival, co-written by LaBrie, Tia Sillers, and Joe Robinson. The new song, produced by multi-Grammy Award-winners, Brent Maher and Charles Yingling, is now available on all digital retailers and can be found HERE. “Firewalker” along with its quarantine versioned music video premiered with Guitar Girl Magazine (HERE) and was chosen as a Daily Discovery for American Songwriter (HERE).
LaBrie spoke about the meaning of the song, saying “Firewalker is about that moment when you’ve just survived something and you look back over your shoulder at the struggle and realize you are a survivor and you will never be the same. Because of the struggle—not because you avoided it—you’ve become stronger, more powerful. I was in the fire, so to speak when I met Tia Sillers and learned that she was there, too. We were in the thick of it, but we weren’t broken. Now I realize we were being reborn into unbreakable Firewalkers. It was an amazing experience to sit in a room with Tia and Joe Robinson and talk about the strength we found in surviving some of the worst events in our lives.”
She continues, “Having survived the tornado that just ripped through my Nashville, neighborhood, Joe’s family having survived the fires in Australia, and with all the fears surrounding Covid-19, I hope this song can be a reminder that we can be strong, we can refuse to break, and we can survive. This song has been a friend to me. I needed this song, and I’m really excited to have it as my first single off this project.”
While plans to create a full music video have been put on hold during the current state of the world, Shannon and co-writer Joe Robinson recorded separately from their homes to create a quarantined version of the music video. Click below to watch the full video.
LaBrie will be holding a single release party via Facebook and Instagram Live with Rockwood Music Hall May 1 at 7pm CST. The release party will be live-streamed across both Shannon and Rockwood’s Facebook and Instagram pages (view details below). Over the next few weeks, before resuming her tour, LaBrie will continue performing via a virtual tour on Facebook LIVE, including sessions with SCENES Media on May 5 and The Boot on May 14 at 12pm CST. A full list of Shannon’s virtual tour performances are listed below. For a list of upcoming tour stops scheduled for later this year, visit www.ShannonLaBrie.com.
With over 12 million streams on Spotify and Apple Music, Shannon LaBrie brings to life insightful stories of a woman who remains true to herself in a life where uncertainty is certain. She is a fearless performer and guitar player whose music possesses a unique blend of Americana and Soul and has already earned the praise of famed music blogger Bob Lefsetz, Rolling Stone, CMT, Paste Magazine, and more. Her powerful 2016 album, War & Peace, earned LaBrie much critical acclaim, and a Top Ten on iTunes, Spotify’s US viral chart and Triple A Radio charts. She has performed over 500 shows across the United States and has opened for artists ranging from Valerie June and ZZ Ward to Robert Randolph and Gabe Dixon.
Her music is filled with emotionally-charged lyrics that give a voice to the love and loss in which LaBrie has experienced throughout her life. Robert Randolph complimented her talent for songwriting when he recorded and released, “She Got Soul,” a song LaBrie wrote, off his Grammy-nominated album, Got Soul. Her music has been featured in many television shows, including Jane By Design, Army Wives, The Client List, and others, and most recently, Susan Tedeschi and Gabe Dixon recorded her song, “I Got Your Love” for an upcoming release.
Signed to Moraine Records, LaBrie is finishing up her forthcoming album, which will be recorded when it is safe to return to the studio following COVID-19.
For more information on Shannon LaBrie, visit www.ShannonLaBrie.com and follow her on Facebook, Instagram, or Twitter.
SHANNON LABRIE’S VIRTUAL TOUR
5/1 at 7 p.m. CST – “Firewalker” Release Party with Rockwood Music Hall – Tune into Facebook HEREand Instagram HERE
5/5 at 7 p.m. CST – SCENES Media – Facebook LIVE (HERE)
5/14 at 12 p.m. CST – The Boot Facebook Live (HERE)
Past Virtual Tour Performances
4/17 – Nashville Meets London Sessions FB LIVE – Watch HERE
4/24 – “Behind the Mic” with American Songwriter – Watch HERE
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