Why I hate Shannon Webb-Campbell!!!!!!!!

[no more a#@&^%*s but we’ll rock the !!!!!s like we’re !!!]

This is my first attempt at creating a more captivating title too - in case people are checking for updates in a feed reader and that’s all they get to see. I was told it’s a good thing to do.

Because truth be told, I do not hate Ms. Webb-Campbell.
I think she’s a doll - if that comes across as some sexist rude remark it certainly shouldn’t be taken as such. She is easily one of the nicest, most understanding, compassionate [?!?] people I’ve met within the local scene. And she plays bass!! I play bass!!

There’s a bunch more [my english teachers would be so proud of this blog] shared similarities too but I’m pressed for time right now so………jumping to the point….She loves the local music scene too. A lot [Alot is not a word people!!!!].

I was going to write about one Tanya Davis earlier this week before getting side tracked.
But before I could get to that I get an email from Shannon about a new article on one Tanya Davis. Cool, that’s fine - Tanya was just featured on the cover of the Coast for their recent best of music issue, probably on plenty of people’s radars as of late and rightfully so.

An aside: Tanya is something else - you could probably label her a spoken word artist but that comes with it a series of prejudices that not only are undeserved, but they’d simply would not hold up when listening to her music. It’s no more spoken word than it is singing as she clearly has her own place in the local music scene. Don’t let the idea that she calls herself a poet turn you way from listening or that it might be spoken word, you’ll be doing yourself a disservice not giving her a chance at least, to win you over. end of aside

So I was planning on writing about the wonderful Superfantastics on Friday. Well wouldn’t you know it, I get another link from Shannon about, the Super-fucking- fantastics. [check back on Friday anyways for a previously unreleased song and details about a show and new video being debuted Friday night].

I just don’t want her to think I’m using her as inspiration, letting her do all the thinking about who should be written about and then copying her out put. I’d never ride someone’s coattails like that. Fact of the matter is I’d rather let her do the work for me as I even asked her to write on this. For the sake of decency I won’t share her response here - but as nice as she is normally, she sure knows how to be hurtful when she wants to. [!!!!!!!!!!!!]

Thing is, for the past while now, she has been shining a spot light on local artists for chartattack.com like it was nobodies business. Which is a great thing for everyone part of the local music scene whether you like the bands she’s interviewed or not.

The list of people she has profiled is a great who’s who of local bands making some great music of late. In addition to the afore mentioned Superfantastics and Tanya Davis some artists she has covered of late include David Myles, Jill Barber, Dog Day, The Maynards, the Stolen Minks, Rebekah Higgs and many more.

So while she may very well continue to make me look like I’m using her to help decide who to write about, I’ll be more than happy to do so as long as she continues shining the light on so many worthwhile locals. Cheers to Shannon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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