Shane Grenert

Hailing from Fairfield, a town 30 minutes from the wine fields of Napa, Shane Grenert is a country singer with a passion for it. “I grew up singing and listening to Garth, Strait, and Jackson in my car seat in my mom’s Lumina.” Raised on the greats of 90s and 00s country, Shane found a love for the genre the first time he heard Johnny Cash. “I remember hearing Folsom Prison Blues for the first time driving home from Boy Scouts when I was 8 or 9, was so different from what I’ve heard before, and I needed more of it.” After getting his first guitar at the age of 9, he went to work learning the songs he grew up hearing, with the first being “Fishin’ in the Dark.”

Heavily rooted in the 90s, he also draws inspiration from the Texas music scene, from the likes of Randy Rogers Band, Wade Bowen, Casey Donahew, and Koe Wetzel. “I remember finding the ‘Nothin’ Shines like Neon’ album when I was in college and being blown away and amazed by the poetry in the lyrics, the soul in the fiddle and steel, felt it was something that I had been missing my whole life.”

While he loves country music, he is a fan of all music, including hard rock and heavy metal. “My senior year of high school I got tricked into joining a heavy metal band by my buddies, thinking it was like Guns N Roses, ended up trying to be like Slipknot and Metallica.” Since then, Shane has been in 2 more heavy metal bands on guitar and live backing vocals with projects like Nail the Casket, and currently working one named Ambivalence. “I just love the energy of the drums, the amount of talent it takes to play the fast guitar riffs, along with the emotion in the screaming of the lyrics.”

Aside from guitar, Shane also plays concert percussion, drum set, piano, bass guitar, banjo, mandolin, and slide guitar. “I’ve never wanted to rely on anyone for my music, so I set out o to learn as many instruments as I can, and learned how to record and do audio engineering in college so I could do everything on my own.” While recording his own songs, he does reach out to friend and fellow musician Kyle Ross Roop, a pedal steel and guitar player over at Steel Records in Shreveport, Louisiana. “Kyle is an awesome musician and I’m glad I got connected with him, he’s helped take my recordings and music to the next level.”