Andrew Sheppard never wanted to be a professional musician. As a kid, he dreamed of being a professional skateboarder.Right after high school, he moved from small-town Hailey, Idaho to Los Angeles to pursue his pro skating dream. Unfortunately, his career was cut short by a debilitating injury. He turned to music as a means of salvation.While skating consumed his teenage years, he grew up surrounded by music, listening to his mom play in rock n roll and blues bands. He took up the bass and was kicking around in ragtag punk bands until he started writing his own songs.L.A. proved the perfect place to reinvent himself. He started playing guitar and fronting his own band and dove into a burgeoning L.A. Americana music scene. A move to Nashville in 2013 resulted in a debut album, Far From Here in 2015, and the follow-up, Steady Your Aim, in 2018. When the pandemic hit, all bets were off. He moved back to Idaho to regroup.In 2022, Sheppard represented Idaho on NBC’s American Song Contest show with his original song "Steady Machine", which was released on Atlantic records, which garnered him national and international recognition.
That sudden burst of notoriety and interest opened the door for Sheppard to work with some of his heroes: Ron Lapread (bassist of the Commodores), drummer, Manu Katche (Sting and Peter Gabriel), and bass player Guy Pratt (Pink Floyd, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Iggy Pop) in Paris, London and Auckland, New Zealand. Unfortunately, Sheppard’s been in a holding pattern due to a familiar tale in the music biz, a bad record deal and disagreements with a producer. He used the time to write and record a new album in his Idaho studio, The Beauty ShopThe album to be released in 2025 is a more straightforward rock ’n’ roll record than his previous work and will appeal to fans of Tom Petty, The Growlers, Cross Canadian Ragweed, Black Lips, Deer Tick and the like.After nearly two years in the recording studio, Sheppard is ready rock and to get back on the road with his band and connect with old and new fans alike.
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