Shawn Camp (musician)

Darrell DeShawn "Shawn" Camp (born August 29, 1966) is an American musician who performs country and Americana music. Originally signed to Reprise Records in 1993 as a recording artist, Camp charted two minor singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts that year. Since then, he has found success as a songwriter, having co-written hit singles for many country music artists, including Garth Brooks, Josh Turner, Brooks & Dunn, and Blake Shelton, although he continues to record his own material as well.

Biography

Camp was raised in Perryville, Arkansas by a musical family.^[2] In 1987, he moved to Nashville, Tennessee and worked in the backing bands of such acts as The Grand Priarie Boys, Osborne Brothers, Alan Jackson, Suzy Bogguss and Trisha Yearwood.^[3] In 1991, he was signed to Reprise Records, with two minor Top 40 singles charting in 1993.^[3] The first of these, "Fallin' Never Felt So Good", was previously recorded by Dude Mowrey.

Camp recorded a second album for Reprise, but never released it due to creative differences. He then began writing for other artists. Camp's first Number One as a songwriter came in early 1998, when Garth Brooks reached the top of the Billboard country charts with "Two Piña Coladas", a song co-written by Camp.^[2] Later that same year, Brooks & Dunn also reached Number One with "How Long Gone", another Camp co-write.^[3][4]

Camp released Lucky Silver Dollar in 2001.^[3] In 2006, he was nominated as Songwriter of the Year by the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music; also, Billboard ranked him No. 10 on their 2006 list of Hot Country Songwriters.^[5] The same year, two songs co-written by Camp entered the country charts: "Nobody But Me" by Blake Shelton, and "Would You Go with Me" by Josh Turner, which peaked at No. 4 and No. 1, respectively, on the Billboard U.S. Hot Country Songs charts. Camp also co-wrote Turner's 2007 single "Firecracker", George Strait's 2008 single "River of Love", and Billy Currington's 2011 single "Love Done Gone".

Since early 2007, Camp has been collaborating with country legend Loretta Lynn writing songs such as "I'm Dyin for Soemone to Live For" together.

In September 2010, Reprise Records issued the previously-unreleased 1994 album, retitled 1994.^[6]

In 2012 Shawn won Album of the Year at the American Music Awards for his co production with Tamara Saviano of This One's For Him: A Tribute to Guy Clark.^[7]

In January 2014, Shawn Camp won a Grammy Award for his production of American singer songwriter, Guy Clark’s album My Favorite Picture Of You.^[8] This was his second Grammy nomination for Best Folk Album of the Year, as last year he, along with co-producer Tamara Saviano, was nominated for This One’s For Him: A Tribute to Guy Clark.

Discography

Albums

Singles

Music videos

References