Captain Wild Horse Rides the Heart of Tomorrow

After recording Oh Say Little Dogies, Why? (Keep Recordings, 2003) in New Mexico's desert and Portland's industrial area, Shelley Short left art school in the Pacific Northwest and headed eastward to Chicago. What had modest beginnings soon picked up momentum with successful shows in Chicago and the Midwest and, like a proverbial snowball, this recording project collected guest performances from the likes of Rachel Blumberg (Decemberists) and Cory Gray (Desert City Soundtrack). Alternately dramatic and humble, dynamic and hushed, Short's ethereal style is full of mystery and portent. Her intimate voice and sincere delivery lend her dark, personal songs a sense of substance and caprice, gained in some measure from her early influences: Ron Davies, Roger Miller, Bob Dylan, Jimmie Rodgers and Joni Mitchell.