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Shelley Short, “A Cave, A Canoo”

The house in Portland where Shelley Short grew up was filled with old instruments. Her mom played the flute, her father the guitar. She spent her childhood staying up late singing with her family, “listening to amazing records, chopping wood and keeping warm by it during the winters, playing dominoes and listening to Jimmie Rodgers for the first time while water from the leaky roof dripped into a bucket.” In a word, the perfect place to listen to her upcoming album “A Cave, A Canoo,” (Hush Records) out October 13.