Shane Wyatt: Mixing Traditional Flavors with a Contemporary Rockin´ Edge, the Minneapolis Based...

With the trail from Oklahoma to Nashville blazed by icons like Garth Brooks, Vince Gill, Toby Keith and Blake Shelton, upstart country artists from the Sooner State have a helluva lot to live up to. Only time will tell just how much Shane Wyatt (www.shanewyatt.com) will add to the lore of legendary Okies, but the multi-talented singer/songwriter is already staking a pretty good claim, riding high and wild on the initial success of his independent debut album The Last Cowboy, in which he wrote all of the songs. Touching hearts and scooting boots with songs inspired by modern traditionalists like George Strait and country rocker Jason Aldean, Wyatt is enjoying great grass roots success with his first single, "The Big Bad Dog," which is receiving airplay on major stations in Oklahoma, Nebraska, South Dakota and Minnesota,... [read full story]