Thanks to the kind folks at Maverick Magazine in the UK for reviewing my album "Stories Behind Songs" in their recent issue! I'm blushing...

"Shantell Ogden’s STORIES BEHIND SONGS embraces the raw materials of country music and…Read more

Recently I connected with a talented photographer in California named Thomas Black. He specializes in photography of what he calls the "abandoned art"of rural America. He has traveled all over the U.S. to capture unique images of old trucks…Read more

  On January 26, "Great American Song" (DiLuigi, Ogden, Stewart) will be impacting at Country Radio! What this basically means in fancy music industry speak is that radio stations will begin adding the song to rotation and reporting spins…Read more

Christmas came early this year! Acklen Park just announced that a song I co-wrote with Marcum Stewart (of Acklen Park) and Bill DiLuigi is going to be released as a single to Country Radio early in 2012.

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L to R: Cappo, me and Dave Carew, music journalist
Garry Fedele (aka Cappo) has been hosting an annual benefit for the Nashville Humane Association for more than 20 years, and I had the pleasure of performing at… Read more

 
  Everybody who comes to Nashville has one thing in common...we all have a dream of making it somewhere. But, as hall-of-fame songwriter Roger Murrah explained to me, "The dream only gets you so far, then the work begins." He… Read more

Thanks to Doug at RockStep Creative for editing this vintage footage from my childhood into a music video for "I Love Different Now."  Hope you like it!   

Here's an inside look at a vocal tracking session at Nashville Sound Lab for the new album, Stories Behind Songs.

 

In this session I worked on "I Miss Dating Truck" (Jarman/Ogden) and "Goodbye Getaway."

 

An album comes together like a bunch of puzzle pieces. For my new album Stories Behind Songs, Dave Smith at Nashville Song Lab was a huge part to making all the pieces fit. He co-produced, recorded, mixed and played…Read more

When I was planning for my new album, Stories Behind Songs, I just kept thinking that I needed some common threads to make the blend of country and folk tunes 'hang' as a collective work.

Percussionist Dave Bobrow…Read more

Recently Monty Parkey stopped by to play on a couple of tunes for my new album Stories Behind Songs. Monty has played keys for country music legends Whisperin' Bill Anderson and Alan Jackson, and he currently plays with Darryl…Read more

When I was eight years old I had braces and was showing a cow in 4-H at the county fair.

When Tigar Bell was eight years old he was playing fiddle for Merle Haggard!

It's pretty amazing to…Read more

I was in the studio one day with Dave Smith and we were talking about what other instruments the songs on my new album needed. I’ve always loved the sound of the pedal steel guitar, and we agreed that steel…Read more

After three years, it was time to get back into the studio to record!

I started this project with a great partner in crime...Dave Smith. He is a killer musician (plays guitar for Lee Greenwood), producer and…Read more

On Saturday, July 30, I sat on my back porch and teared up.

Acklen Park was performing "Lost," a song that I co-wrote with Bill DiLuigi and Scott Jarman, for a close group of friends and family. It's… Read more

Acklen Park is taking "Lost," a song I wrote with friends Bill DiLuigi and Scott Jarman, to Country Radio as a single beginning in August!

This will be the first time a song I co-wrote will be promoted to…Read more