SHANNON CURFMAN

Shannon Marie Curfman (born July 31, 1985, Fargo, North Dakota) is an American blues-rock guitarist and singer.
She came to prominence in 1999, at the age of 14,with the release of her first album, Loud Guitars, Big Suspicions, which she recorded a year earlier.

Curfman self-released a five-song EP entitled Take It Like A Man in July 2006, followed by the full-length album Fast Lane Addiction in 2007. She released her third album, What You're Getting Into, in 2010.

Since 2010, Curfman has been a vocalist with Kid Rock's backing band Twisted Brown Trucker.



              

            

Along with being a member of Kid Rock's band 'Twisted Brown Truckers' for the past ten years guitarist and singer/songwriter Shannon Curfman burst upon the blues and roots rock scene in 1999 with her major-label debut for Arista Records, ‘Loud Guitars, Big Suspicions.'  She has sold a quarter million albums and has been Kid Rock's duet partner, background singer and guitarist since 2010.  As an opener she has toured with Mellencamp, Buddy Guy, The Indigo Girls, ZZ Top, Page/Plant, Carlos Santana, Jeff Beck and more.  She has played on Letterman, Leno, Good Morning America, Rock n Roll Record Breakers and has recorded with John Fogerty, Bob Seger, Buddy Guy, Keb Mo, Kid Rock, John Mayall and Joe Bonamassa, to name a few.  Shannon is an electric and commanding performer who rips solos on the guitar like one of the guys.  Between Curfman’s songwriting, her saucy and demanding vocals and her scorching lead guitar Shannon is not to be missed!

Shannon has toured or recorded with the following artists:

JOHN MELLENCAMP – THE INDIGO GIRLS – BUDDY GUY – CARLOS SANTANA – B.B. KING – JONNY LANG – WILLIE NELSON – NEIL YOUNG – MEMBERS OF PRINCE & THE NEW POWER GENERATION – ME'SHELL NDEGEOCELLO – STEVIE WONDER – TAB BENOIT – KEB MO' – JOHN MAYALL – GEORGE THOROGOOD – BILLY PRESTON – STONE TEMPLE PILOTS – HANSON – KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD – BUTCH WALKER – JEFF HEALEY – DOYLE BRAMHALL II – KOKO TAYLOR – GRETCHEN WILSON BIG & RICH – ELVIN BISHOP – ALBERT CASTIGLIA – MICHELLE BRANCH -–JOHN LEE HOOKER – TERRI CLARK – JO DEE MESSINA – KANSAS - DAVID CROSBY – JACKSON BROWNE

Shannon has appeared on the following:

* THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO 

* DAVID LETTERMAN 

* CRAIG KILBORN 

* GOOD MORNING AMERICA 

* DONNY & MARIE 

* ROSIE O'DONNELL 

* VH1's ROCK & ROLL RECORD BREAKERS 

* THE ANSLEY HARRIETT SHOW, ETC.....

* FOX TELEVISION 1 HOUR CONCERT SPECIAL


               

Quotes

“I was blown away…I know when I hear star quality and you radiate with that. …I would love the opportunity to work with you and your very impressive personal and professional family”. ~Clive Davis, President - Arista Records

“…the most impressive debut by a blues artist since Stevie Ray Vaughan's Texas Flood. Shannon sings with the brassiness of Bonnie Raitt, writes liked a funked-up Sheryl Crow and plays guitar as if she's channeling both SRV and Jimi Hendrix…(Shannon is) the best argument for reincarnation aside from the Dalai Lama himself” ~ Vic Garbarini, Playboy Magazine

“I heard Hard To Make A Stand on the radio and loved it”. ~ Sheryl Crow - Read Sheryl Crow's Letter to Shannon!

“The biggest buzz belonged to blues rocker Shannon Curfman, who drew an ecstatic response from a packed house at the Fox Theatre. She will be this year's breakout, without a doubt. It was the biggest opening act since Counting Crows [in 1993]”. ~ Kent Zimmerman, Gavin (speaking at Triple A radio station summit in Boulder , CO)

“Scorching blues guitar and gritty female vocals from a wunderkind who sounds like the younger sister of Jonny Lang. But Lang would probably feel a little heat from the competition -- Curfman was only thirteen when she recorded her debut, yet her singing and playing have the soul of someone many years her senior…. Curfman speaks eloquently through her guitar. She's got a crazy skill for melody and an ability to extract real meaning …and with the help of a top-shelf band, she turns in an introductory statement that makes you want to hear more. Her instrumental mastery is undeniable”. ~ Rolling Stone

“As far as young guitarists go, there's this girl in Minneapolis named Shannon Curfman . She does the old Chaka Khan funky blues kind of stuff. She's only fourteen or fifteen, and she scares me”. ~Jonny Lang

“OK, Britney Spears - take your tarty makeup and schoolgirl vixen outfits and go home. A real woman-child has arrived, and she can mop the floor with you”. ~ Gemma Tarlach , Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

“Curfman is miles ahead of her colleagues in vocal prowess... By the end of the night, it didn't matter how old she was. She was just brilliant, period." ~Times Union , Albany , NY.

“Perhaps the most extreme entry in the ranks of white, teen blues players hailing from the culturally barren Midwest , Curfman represents true girl power”. ~Yahoo! / Launch

“How does someone so young write songs with so much life packed in them”? ~CNN, Worldbeat

“Loud Guitars, Big Suspicions makes it clear that Curfman has her own voice, one that's a little bolder and gutsier than Lang's. Throughout the record, her singing is impassioned and playing is fiery”. ~Billboard

“Loud Guitars, Big Suspicions may well be the debut of the next queen of blues guitar." - Genevieve Williams, Amazon.com.

"Shannon Curfman is no longer the child prodigy. She steps out in Fast Lane Addiction as a full grown performer ready to face life on the road. This album should return her to the status she achieved years back and take her career to the next level." ~Dave’s Spin, Blue Sky Music