Bman's Blues Report

Award-winning Americana artist Shantell Ogden will be releasing her new album Ghosts in the Field on April 28, 2015. The seven-song collection follows Ogden’s highly successful Better at Goodbye, which won Americana Album of the Year at the 2014 IMEA Awards, garnering her a whole new legion of fans. “I feel like I’m continuing to stretch and evolve in my songwriting and vocal delivery as an artist,” said Shantell. “I wanted to make sure people felt full after listening to the album, so I tried to think of it in terms of a menu. I wanted to balance out the deep songs with some lighter toe tapping tunes.” Each song has a distinct emotional flavor, from the cold, hard truth of loving an addict in “Who Comes First”, to the deep yet hopeful “God Counts Every Tear,” to the upbeat song about a crush “Just a Little.” Perhaps the highlight of the album is the nostalgic “Ghosts in the Field” which Shantell wrote to honor her family’s third generation dairy farm. “’Ghosts in the ...