Rainy Days Podcast Ep 5: Shelby Earl, Songwriter Rainy Days Podcast

Rainy Days Podcast episode five features a conversation between host Danny Newcomb and Shelby Earl, a Seattle-based songwriter and singer. Shelby Earl’s first two albums earned the kind of raves any musician would kill for. Upon hearing her 2011 debut, Burn the Boats, NPR’s Ann Powers called Earl her “new favorite songwriter,” and she wasn’t alone. Accolades followed from Rolling Stone to the Wall Street Journal and a million music sites in between that positioned her somewhere to the left of Neko Case, a few blocks from Sharon Van Etten, catercorner to Angel Olsen. She toured everywhere, playing with the likes of Loudon Wainwright, Rhett Miller, and Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie, who spoke for many people when he said Earl had “the most heartbreakingly beautiful voice in Seattle.”

Head to The Homestead, Newcomb’s members-only site for bonus clips and content from this conversation. Episode five featuring Shelby Earl is available March 4, 2022, wherever you listen to podcasts and can also be found in video format at DannyNewcombMusic.com/rainy-days-podcast