Postponed – Shawn Mullins – Live at the Lyric

As of 3/25/20, we are working to reschedule Shawn Mullins for a date later in the year.

Live at the Lyric presents an evening with Shawn Mullins, Thursday, April 2nd, 2020, at 8 pm.

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Shawn Mullins readily admits that several of the songs on his new album, My Stupid Heart, address his perceived relationship failures. In the title tune, he actually chides himself for being such a romantic. But it’s also a bit of a joke, he says, because he firmly believes in following his heart — no matter where it leads. Which, it turns out, is the guiding force behind just about every song on the album — the theme, he says, is summed up most succinctly by another song title: “It All Comes Down to Love.”

Mullins says, it’s not all that different from most of his discography — which includes 1998’s Soul’s Core, the album that shot him to fame on the strength of its Grammy-nominated No. 1 hit, “Lullaby,” and 2006’s 9th Ward Pickin’ Parlor, with AAA/Americana No. 1, “Beautiful Wreck.” (He also co-wrote the Zac Brown Band’s No. 1 country tune, “Toes.”) But in the years since his last release, 2010’s Light You Up, Mullins has experienced more ups and downs on his romantic roller-coaster.

With a supple baritone that still allows him to channel Prince, as well as wail the blues and growl with grit — not to mention rock those talkin’ rhythms — Mullins has been engaging audiences since he won his first high-school talent contest with his own composition. “I’m in a new place in my life, a place of freedom, artistically — and a real grounded place of bein’ a dad,” he says. “I’m really excited about the possibilities.” Though he may be wearing a little more emotional armor this time, when he steps onstage each night, he sings with all the passion he’s got in his anything-but-stupid heart.