Shelley Short

Alt-country chanteuse Shelley Short was born and raised in Portland, OR. According to Bob Mehr's profile in the February 3 edition of the Chicago Reader, she was introduced to a vast range music via her record-collector father, and after a stint playing trombone in her middle school band she played bass in a punk duo dubbed Bogadoy. While still in high school, Short grew infatuated with vintage country and honky tonk, and taught herself guitar while attending the Pacific Northwest College of Art. Invited to play a local open mic night, she wrote her first original songs in 200...