CLASSIC ROCK INTERVIEWS: SHANE ATKINSON MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST, PRODUCER, ENGINEER & BEAU WEST LEAD SINGER FOR AMERICAN PROGRESSIVE ROCK GROUP EVERSHIP EXCLUSIVE ZOOM SPECIAL EVENT ON INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS!

S H A N E A T K I N S O N

MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST, PRODUCER, ENGINEER

AND

B E A U W E S T

LEAD SINGER

FOR AMERICAN PROGRESSIVE ROCK GROUP

E V E R S H I P

EXCLUSIVE ZOOM SPECIAL EVENT

ON INTERVIEWING THE LEGENDS

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Progressive/Art Rock band Evership is the conceptualization of composer, multi-instrumentalist, and producer/engineer Shane Atkinson. Shane played in Nashville bands and as a backup musician for label artists in the late 80's and 90's. As a composer he wrote on Music Row and always having a studio running somewhere in the Nashville area, was a prolific composer with musical work spanning from commercials and film to orchestral and theater. He made two records with the 90's Alternative Rock band Curious Fools, but with the birth of his first child, he decided to leave the music business for the budding software industry.

Shane says he never really stopped writing. "The music just kept coming, almost haunting me. I'd constantly wake up in the night to record song ideas. Over those years I amassed at least a hundred hours of material. But my success in software made it nearly impossible to get out. Something like Evership was bound to happen, it had to happen." In 2005, in response to a dream, he sold his big house in the suburbs, downsized, built a recording studio, and opened a commercial and film music production company to finance the album effort.

It would take about ten years to make the first record; not just for the actual recording, but for raising a family, building a studio, holding down the production company and remaining business interests, and sifting through the mountain of song material.

In the break after the Evership II support tour and during Covid, Shane completed writing/curating their third and fourth albums; a two-act rock opera based on a literary work by Harold Bell Wright entitled 'The Uncrowned King'. The same Evership II band lineup performed the recording and the unique photography of Rory White graces the covers for an altogether different and catching "storybook" effect. The single 'Allthetime' was released April 23nd to great fan and industry acclaim, appeared on PROG magazine's CD Sampler (Issue #119) and aired internationally on terrestrial and internet radio. The album 'The Uncrowned King - Act 1' was released on May 21st, 2021 and garnered many Best Album of 2021 from reviewers and fans! The epic music video to 'The Tower' aired on November 24th of that year.

'The Uncrowned King - Act 2' was launched with three singles: The first 'Coronation' was released on June 22nd, 2022. The second single 'The Voice of the New Day', released July 15th, features SAGA-frontman Michael Sadler. The final single 'The Law of Ages' is accompanied by an elegant music video sensation. And finally the awaitied conclusion to the rock opera 'The Uncrowned King - Act 2' was released October 14th, 2022 to great international acclaim! Evership has garnered solid responses and best of 2022 awards for 'The Uncrowned King - Act 2' proving that this band is at full-sail and the journey continues strong!

PURCHASE

THE LATEST ALBUM

EVERSHIP

Entitled

THE

UNCROWNED

KING

ACT 2

available at

www.evership.com/store.html

and amazon.com

ALSO

THE

UNCROWNED

KING

ACT 1

EVERSHIP

available at

www.evership.com/store.html

and amazon.com

FOR MORE INFORMATION

ABOUT

SHANE ATKINSON

BEAU WEST

AND

EVERSHIP

VISIT

www.evership.com

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Bandcamp

https://open.spotify.com/album/0Py8sM9HfFWSNYIIg8Nb5N

Spotify

EVERSHIP

DISCOGRAPHY

Evership (2016)

II (2018)

The Uncrowned King - Act 1 (2021)

The Uncrowned King - Act 2 (2022)

SHANE ATKINSON

AND BEAU WEST

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SEPTEMBER 24TH 2023

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