Shawn Mullins

Underrated Southern songwriting

by James M. Manheim

posted 10/30/2010

Atlanta songwriter Shawn Mullins had a top-ten pop hit about a dozen years ago with "Lullaby," a mostly spoken portrait of a jaded, stressed young woman in Los Angeles. Mullins' new album, Light You Up, has a couple more acid-etched L.A. songs, and he has some great lines describing that often sung-about city: "Tinseltown / snakes are crawlin' / down the

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