Check out the BUZZ!! Awards & Recognition: *Buddy Magazine's Top 25 Albums Released by Texas Artists in 2003: Lists Tiffany Shea's "Phoenix" as #13. Shea is only one of only two unsigned bands that make the list. Also listed are Eryka Badu, Lyle Lovett, and George Jones. *Tiffany was on the Cover of Buddy Magazine issued Feb. 2005; the full length article reviewed the Tiffany Shea Band 10 month 2004 US Tour, which was in support of the album, "Phoenix." *Alternative Rock Band of the Year, Dallas Local Show Awards *"Phoenix" - Alternative Rock Album of the Year, Dallas Local Show Awards *Best Female Vocalist, Dallas Local Show Awards *Best Female Vocalist, Dallas Local Show Awards, again *Best Acoustic Show, Ft. Worth Weekly Music Awards *Best Acoustic Show, Ft. Worth Weekly Music Awards, again *House Band for Clear Channel's Mix 102.9 in Dallas, TX.- 5th largest station in their market. *A Recent Review: Tiffany Shea is an award winning American singer-songwriter known for her powerfully structured and emotionally intense songs that tackle a wide range of subjects, including the rigors of modern love, spirituality and personal tragedy. Acclaimed by her contemporaries, Shea consistently reconciles her love/hate relationship with a fickle music industry by recording albums brimming with original material, and this is reflected in the company she keeps - having been billed with the likes of B. B. King, Ani DiFranco, BareNaked Ladies, Natalie Merchant, and Blondie. Tiffany Shea has written and produced 12 albums, which include the award winning "Phoenix" - a brilliant collection of alt-pop-rock hits demonstrating the expressiveness of her four-octave voice, that the world can magically still sing along to. Her albums retain the eccentric, idiosyncratic, and literary lyrical edge for which Shea is best known; and her eclectic and meticulous musical and production styling continues to bolster her fan base on both sides of the Atlantic. *Album Review Timeless: Live & Solo at Poor David’s Pub Buddy Magazine: Texas Original Music Feb. 2006 Timeless is like a comfortable, confessional, and sometimes emotional conversation with friends, accompanied by music. Tiffany Shea recorded the solo CD Aug. 6 at Poor David’s Pub the day before she left Texas to attend art school in Cleveland. The CD release was a Dec. 22 band show at Poor David’s. Playing to a live, enthusiastic audience, Shea, a former female vocalist of the year in Fort Worth, opened the show by asking what fans wanted to hear first; Crazy, somebody shouted. (That’s a song, not a notion.) She did most of the show that way, taking requests from the audience for her original songs, talking with the audience, and quickly finding her comfort level. She used 11 of the songs on this CD (her tenth in 10 years), along with some of the between-songs exchanges. Shea, a rocker with a good touch for introspective ballads, threw a lot of energy and emotion into the night’s acoustic performances, including an eight-minute version of the passionate I-want-you-back song, and “Prodigal,” a song about knowing and being true to yourself, which grew out of a visit with her grandmother who had Alzheimer’s. Other familiar highlights included “Stay,” “Crush,” and “Sensitive.” The recording quality Shea’s voice and the acoustic guitar off the board at Poor David’s is good, even with the occasional audience voice bleeding in. In the interest of fair reporting, I opened, at Shea’s request, the show that resulted in this CD with a 15-minute poetry reading. I’ve been on a lot of stages, but this was the first one where the room was so dark and the lights so bright that I couldn’t see anyone in the audience, couldn’t make that personal, face-to-face connection. While some musicians confess to liking that anonymity, Shea used the between-songs conversations to connect. Tom Geddie *Performance review from -North Carolina There's a feeling of tremendous satisfaction when something you believe is going to be good turns out to be great... and in this case it was mind-blowing fantastic. I am talking about the recent performance by the Tiffany Shea band at Somewhere Else Tavern Friday August 13. I had been told by Burley, the owner of ST that I needed to check Tiffany out and so I did. I called her drummer Pete, set up an interview with Tiffany and scored a press kit. One listen to the demo and I was hooked, and I had that sometimes rare feeling you get when you feel like you have discovered a buried treasure. I set up a 20- minute interview with Tiffany that ended up lasting an hour. In an industry of pre-packaged , lip- synching, skimming the surface music, Tiffany is a refreshing respite. This power house dynamo from Texas started out playing piano at an early age, dipped her creative hand into music, vocal training, theatre and the fine arts, but eventually after asking a friend to teach her seven chords on a guitar, the tides turned and Tiffany landed on the stage during an open mic night and from this small beginning she edged her way into the music scene with a rousing cacophony that dares you to just sit there and ignore it. Tiffany has something to say and the storyteller that she is mesmerizes the audience. At her recent performance on Saturday, I watched as kids in their teens stood just inches from the stage hanging on to her every word and I also watched their expressions. They were caught in a trance that she wove with her vibrant voice, animated facial expressions and intermittent sincere dialogue. She moved easily from her original material supporting her recent release "Phoenix" to covers like "Hurt" that didn't sound like covers because she paid homage in a matchless and captivating way. After the show, I got a chance to chat with Tiffany and she and I discussed her performance. I told her that she was one of the best acts I had seen all year and if you have been following my weekend club schedule you know that is no small compliment. You'd almost expect someone with her kind of talent to have at least a bit of ego, but in talking with her I could only find a truly genuine artist who is doing not only what she loves to do, but what she was meant to do. She is as open and honest as her music and her heart. As I said my goodbyes and made my way to my car I saw Tiffany's van sitting in the parking lot..I stopped just for a moment. "Phoenix". The definition ran through my head, a beautiful bird that rises from its own ashes....and I smiled. When Tiffany titled her latest cd she couldn't have been more insightful. -Kim Thore *Go! Triad Magazine, North Carolina Aug. 12, 2004: circ. 150,000: SCENE, Page 11 Musically, Friday the 13th brings across the county line an opportunity for you to take in a singer/songwriter many are calling the next big thing. The Tiffany Shea Band will grace the stage of the Somewhere Else Tavern in Greensboro's Quaker Village Shopping Center across from Guilford College, and like most things from Texas- or so they say- this will be bigger and better than expected. Shea has an uncompromising voice and a personality to match, and I'm convinced that her days of touring in a small van are nearing an end. The Tiffany Shea Band has played with B. B. King, Lisa Loeb, and Blondie, and its style is varied and includes the power pop ballads of the rock 'n roll divas of the 1980's and the haunting acoustic numbers that remind me of Tori Amos. The show starts at 10pm. This tour is supporting Shea's critically acclaimed release, "Phoenix," which is rather appropriate because this band is, indeed, on the rise. *** -Kim Thore (www.strutteronthetown.com) *Best Female Vocalist Fort Worth Weekly Music Awards (TX) Last month, power-puff rocker Tiffany Shea and her band embarked on their first major tour of the great U.S. of A., kicking off in Rhode Island, then following the coast south through North Carolina to Georgia, and then ... who knows? Whatever Shea et al. are up to, they're not slacking. 'Cause if this longtime scenester isn't hustling gigs or performing her brand of riot grrrl rock for Vogue subscribers, she's not breathing. Whether upstaging Amy Grant at the Dallas Hard Rock Cafe (which actually happened, in 1997) or sneaking into the Grammys with a fake ID to schmooze and booze, Shea is seizing the g*damn day (while you're probably horizontal on your couch, a half-eaten Klondike in your hand and a hole in your pocket, wondering why Universal hasn't called to offer you a deal yet). The talent is there, patently apparent in Shea's ghostly voice and sensual presence, and in the music -- the type of lush, spirited, female-friendly rock that even a guy can dig without feeling like a total ballerina. Now it's just a matter of getting that talent "out there." *Record Review *BUDDY Magazine A Texas Music Magazine TIFFANY SHEA BAND "PHOENIX" self-released From the first line, "Press me down into the sacred pages of history," to the last, "...the time for me to process all these things has come, but I don't know if I can," Tiffany Shea's Phoenix is a personal, introspective rock CD, one of human's stories, real and imagined, that echo humanity's dreams and fears. "Prodigal," whether done solo acoustic, or with the full band, remains a masterful song about self-discovery and determination. "Velvet," is an equally strong, erotic song of longing, with faint jazzy undertones. Fort Worth Weekly named Shea best Dallas-Ft. Worth acoustic act in both 2000 and 2001. She has played as many as 200 shows a year in recent years, from Sue Ellen's in Dallas to South by Southwest in Austin to Mardi Gras Galveston to the American Film Institute's awards show in Los Angeles to, of all places, the Bluebird Cafe in Nashville. Her lyrics are both literate and personal; she sings with full passion and she writes about what she knows, or what she wants to understand better. Musically, the CD is dramatic. Pete Abdou (drums), Jace Bersin (lead guitar), Miguel Fair (bass) and Shea make strong, adventurous music with enough variety to fit all the moods Shea shares, from cathedral to emotional abyss. *Record Review "Harder Beat Magazine: Everything that Rocks" Dallas, TX April '04 TSB's latest CD is a contemporary "chick-rock" masterpiece. From the rocker "Wish," with its ripping guitar work, to the sweet "Beuatiful," to the tear-jerker "She," to the hypnotic "Hurricane;" this disc displays a wide range of musical and vocal styles. With stellar production (by Tiffany herself) and polish that equals anything on the airwaves, this is a must-have to rival Sarah McLaughlin or Alanis Morissette. Even though great pain seems woven throughout the 60+ minute recording, it is ultimately uplifting, as the title so perfectly implies. -Mark Beneventi *FAN Reviews! Click below to add YOURS!! Online post: there are people all over this COUNTRY that adore you and love your music. everywhere you go, you are a magnet to those looking for an answer to their questions. your music streams from the soul and nothing you do is done with any less than 100% of love, passion and down right emotion. your fans...well, the normal ones...are drawn to you because of that. they love that about you and your music speaks volumes and gives meaning to so many situations in so many people's lives. the way you write translates to so many situations and people identify with you because of that. you never act like you're better than anyone your around as far as the way you communicate with your fans. you make people feel close to you, like you are one of them. you appreciate and support the ideals that keep this whole world going; family, love, compassion, trust, loyalty...and you write about all of this. it's amazing what you do.... really! i believe that people are brought together to learn from eachother, grow with each other, make each other better as people and to be there for each other. i know that's why we got to know one another. the universe has it's ways of saving lives just by putting people in the same room. who would have known that would happen to me that first night i saw a show. but it did...and it continues to happen every time you take the stage-- there are always people looking back at you through the bar's smokey haze, through the sea of people standing out under the sun, in the corner of that magnificent theatre....who you speak to, who are touched by your words, they want to know more about what it means to understand what you have come to understand. they know you've lived and learned from your living....and they look to you to understand how to get through their own situation....no matter what it may be. Atlanta, GA: "hi, I'm Carrie, the girl who sat in your row at Eddies Attic. Your performance was absolutely delicious! If I hadn't been beat from moving and whatnot, I would have been screaming my head off. You were robbed! Atlanta is a strange town when it comes to music. You can't get people to come to see you play, even if you're kickass awesome, jaw-droppingly fantastic. It's like, if they are fans of someone else, that's it. They won't become your fan. You've done this, obviously for a while so you know how it goes. just wanted to let you know you rocked! i am glad i stopped in on a whim. Kisses.!!!!! -Carrie Dallas, TX."I just heard the song "Enough". Thank you for writing that. I just broke up with my fiancee and kicked him out of my apartment (yes, I've had a busy summer too, in my own way). This song describes perfectly how I feel right now. Anyway, keep rocking. It's so fabulous that your tour is going strong. I hope everyone is doin well. Much love, -Nutmeg Clearwater, FL "Hello Tiffany, Wow how do start this.. but to say THANK YOU!! I saw you perform @ Gasoline Alley. Now sitting down to listen to your CD on Saturday afternoon less than 24 hrs after a live show......(well 1/2 your show since we got there late) .....I was... and still am Blown away at this amazing magic I have been able to hear. I fell head over heals in love with this gift you have been blessed with (and I'm a die hard 80's metal head)(smiling). I can't part with the CD for a day I take it to work and then with me to and from work each day. Many co-workers of mine have stopped to listen with great interest in what they are hearing and I can't do justice describing to them about you and your CD. It's that damn good!!! Your voice is incredible not mention the music you all create! It's far and few when a sound like this "stops you dead in your tracks" and pulls you in the way this CD has for me......Thank You!!! I'm sad to have not been able to hear all the show and as a full band but what I did hear was mind blowing stuff. You told me, October is when you'll be back (not soon enough). I'll look forward to your return to the area and want to end with sending My best wish of good health and long success on your journey and with a safe return home when its all done. take care and good journey. FLY PHOENIX FLY!!!! ROCK ON GIRL!! A proud new fan! See Ya, Jim Hartford, Connecticut:"So, do you maybe have a secret career in your head, one of those endless daydreams that have brushed up against you in a shadowy corner, or, a dream you've come close enough to feel the whisper in your ear, hear the breath in your soul? Overly poetic perhaps, indulgent, absolutely. I have always had an irrational reverence for artists, especially musicians, and most especially beautiful women with amazing voices, heart wrenching/uplifting poetry and great chops. Well, Tiffany Shea Band has sparked the dream again and in my head I'm packed and on the road, catering to as many needs, wishes and whims of the band that I can fulfill. (there are SOME limits), but yes, I, like thousands before me, dream of being the manager/booker/roadie girl for a truly talented band who has the guts to go for it! After catching a Wednesday night gig in Hartford, after listening to the Phoenix CD all day today at work, and after pursuing the website, I'm hooked. These guys are wonderful to chat with, no ego, c*&p bulls*^t, just real people, playing really good music. If you have a clue about music, presence and all of what "it" takes to be "there", then you'll know when you hear these three, they've GOT IT! The elusive, most powerful, unyielding, blessed IT. Thank the Gods that they also have the guts to go for it and do the road thing.If you haven't heard Tiffany Shea Band, go to the nearest gig and say hello for me. If you have heard them, then dammit do something to help them out! Offer to flyer before a gig, send emails to everyone you know with their website, send $20, they'll send you a CD, offer them your couch for a night. GET IT! In a country where everything is owned and run by a few, independent artists need us, and need us badly. SUPPORT INDEPENDENT ARTIST DAMMIT!! I know I'm sick to death of the radio and hearing the same 6 songs all day. BOYCOTT the MAINSTREAM. Get off your ass and go to a gig, even if it is at 11PM on a Wednesday, you can sleep when you're gone."-Beatrice M. Birdman Fort Worth, TX."I feel highly fortunate to have caught your Saturday show at the Black Dog, and am quite glad that I thought to ask for a web address, as the site provided yet another treat in the form of your artwork...the one of the Kiss easily being my favorite. I've been unable to decide on a fav from Phoenix, however, as each track grips me, moves me, and resonates deeply within my soul." -Anonymous Minneapolis, MN."Your band is very strong (nice guys, too); their ability and energy coupled with your endearing stage presence and the raw, accessible emotion in your delivery tell me that the Tiffany Shea Band is destined for great things. You've certainly won a loyal fan here, and I look forward to catching your next shows in town." - Danny Boston, Mass."My son is currently taking drum lessons from your drummer Pete Abdou, and Pete is the one who introduced us to your music. We love it! Tom, 12 yrs. old (soon to be 13), is often the one to pop the Phoenix cd into the player as we drive along. Your songs and lyrics have touched a deep part of me and so many of the words just "click" or make sense for me. Thank you for sharing your talents and thoughts and feelings with the rest of the world! It's a very brave choice, and I applaud you for it. Unfortunately, I was sick when you and the band played in in late December, so I didn't get to see you perform. If you're ever in Rhode Island again, I'd love to see you play. Best of luck in this new year; I wish you every success." -Dorothy Engineer of our album, Phoenix:"Hey guys, just thought I would drop by and let you know that it was great working with you in the studio. It was nice to work with a bunch of talented people. I will always remember you guys, not only because you're a great band, but also because you guys are so easy to work for. There are BS bands that make it, and I ask myself how that happened, and then there are KILLER bands like TSB that are keeping it real regardless of status, out there sharing their music everywhere they go. Well, thanks for everything and good luck."-Mike Lutts Wow! I am totally blown away. I finally listened to the whole album, while driving up the northeast coast. The visuals as I drove intensified the beauty/emotion of the album - the colors - butter yellow, tangerine orange, cranberry red, and russet of the trees and hills driving were at their most spectacular (this is peak color time)- a fitting background for this most spectacular work of the band!? -EB "I just have to tell you the show last night was one of the best i have seen recently...the energy/chemistry/overall feel of it was OUTSTANDING...i really enjoyed it..i thought it was going to be somewhat blah..just because of getting started late and me being tired already...but it was great...you guys really gelled and sounded awesome... thought i you might like to hear that...." - Lorie "I just got the CD! I'm glad you finally found musicians and recording engineers with enough talent to produce a record like that. I've listened to it twice now and my ears are still finding candy in all the lush arrangements. The whole thing sounds smooth and listenable and still somehow captures the energy of your live show like no recording before has done. You never cease to amaze me, far from being burned out at 23 all the talent and fire are still there... the Phoenix will rise." -Anonymous "The PHOENIX CD is "BAD A------S" "Every song is great. Like Wish, Prodigal, Beautiful, She, Undone, Velvet, Witness, Hurricane & Crazy. And Phoenix is a great Intro.I'm not much for words, but this is a GREAT CD.-MC "Hey guys, I enjoyed your PHOENIX release at 'The Moon'. You guys were so in tune with each other, it was amazing. Tiff you looked awesome, and of course your voice was magical. I really enjoyed visiting with you all. Miguel my thoughts are with you, Jace you were awesome as always, and Pete your talent amazes me. Tiff, your beautiful soul inspires me. My life has been stressed out lately and seeing you was a ray of sunshine. My heart is always lifted by the phenomenal music that is "The Tiffany Shea Band". I am proud to know you. -Machelle "To all the members of the Tiffany Shea Band: Mario bought me your newest CD and put it in my car to listen to as I drive thru traffic to and from work. I just want to let you know just how awesome it is to listen to your music. It certainly sets a different mood for me now to face the world as I listen to your beautiful messages, lyrics etc you send through your voices and chords. I have always been and always will be one of your biggest fans! I' m so proud to say that I personally know these great musicians behind this fabulous art. I know one day when I turn on the television to watch my late night shows there you all will be! I can't wait to see you again in person. Love and Peace to all of you during this great and wonderful endeavor." - Melissa "I am enjoying the cd very much and playing it for all my friends. I especially like the mellower stuff, but all of it is very cool. I am incredibly proud of you!!! When you are huge you'll have to tell everyone to buy my book. And when my movie gets made, you will have to do songs for the soundtrack. In all seriousness--sounds great. Glad to get tangible proof of my artist friends surviving and doing their thing. -Anonymous "I got a chance to listen to Phoenix last night and it "blew me away". Wow, what a great cd! You guys did an awesome job!?-Annette "I've been really diggin the CD! Besides "Prodigal," which I've always loved, I also really dig "Undone," and "She." At first I thought "She" was about a Mother losing her daughter, like her daughter ran away or she died. Then I read the CD cover and realized what it's really about :( but it's still a really great song!?:) -Dianna This is a poem featuring Tiffany's Song Titles. Written by a gifted artist by the name of Tom Geddie (www.tomgeddie.com). Enjoy. CASH & NAILS (JUNE 20) There was one with eyes like dark, heavy storm clouds hanging still in a moist sky, in a sky dark before night, in a darkening, still sky. She was on stage. On this Sunday night in this smoky bar far from rock stardom. Once the soundman got the vocals right, halfway through her set, the audience was hers. Green neon whispered its light into the dark, under the pale white moon shining somewhere, as Epiphany began to wail of grave sites and wind chimes and flowers, of smiles and short celebrations of healing. She sang her Songs. She rocked. She closed with the Johnny Cash version of Nine Inch Nails' "Hurt." I, am I BEAUTIFUL, eyes closed tight Helpless HURRICANE in a hazy HARBOUR UNDONE by the civilized shore RUNAWAY, runaway, no home again today Trying to float like a red BALLOON Make a WISH, make a wish today Yours or mine does not matter STAMPEDE before we both shatter ECHO, echo, echo, echo, echo LOVE GONE BY, gone by, gone by FALL is just one of the four seasons The PRELUDE is the prelude, the prelude is OVER, over all of our weary heads Dancing, dancing like a CIRCUS GIRL ARMS falling AWAY FROM YOU and you and you You are the PRODIGAL, always leaving home Travel forever, HERE'S TO YOU OUTSIDE AGAIN, in the wind in the sky SHE floats, so wants to fly Echo, echo, echo, echo, echo Echo, echo, echo, echo, echo In VELVET currents, for velvet dreams For the PHOENIX to rise again I beg far above, far above simple JUSTICE STAY not where you are or were To live outside the crowded CRUSH In some sort of CRAZY GRACE Let us WITNESS, let us witness Let us BELIEVE, let us believe Feelings are not too SENSITIVE to say Echo, echo, echo, echo, echo #472 Echo, echo, echo, echo, echo Live like a VISIONARY for another day - T.Geddie If you would like your review of the album to appear on this page, send it to Pete * HOME *