Shawn Pittman grew up with music all around him.  His grandmother loved to play the boogie-woogie piano at family gatherings.  Shawn's mother must have seen something in him before he discovered what would be his life's passion, his mother signed him up to take piano lessons at a young age. It wasn't long until young Shawn was sneaking into his older brother's room to play on his drum kit.  By age fourteen, Shawn had a guitar in his hands.  His discovery of Lightin Hopkins and Muddy Waters set the stage for Shawn's musical journey. 

He was born into his native roots of the Choctaw nation in Talihina, Oklahoma. Pittman later found his musical roots in Texas Blues when he moved to the state at the age of seventeen to attend the Booker T. Washington High School of the Performing Arts in Dallas. He expanded his music education courtesy of his uncle who would take him to local jams around town.  This is how Shawn first met and learned from musicians like Brian "Hashbrown" Calway, Anson Funderburgh, Sam Myers, Mike Morgan, Jim Suhler, and Tutu Jones. As he played and learned he also encountered and played with Robin Syler, Homer Henderson, Andrew "Junior Boy" Jones, Robert Ealey, U.P. Wilson, Marc Pollack, Paul Size, Jay Moeller, Johnny Moeller, Smokin Joe Kubek, Bnois King, Cricket Taylor, and Lou Hampton.

“We just put out an album, probably one of the best blues albums in the last 10 years, on a guy named Shawn Pittman,” he said. “He’s from Austin and he’s young, good-looking and is just a monster guitar player. He’s also a monster singer and writes these incredible blues songs that sound like they were written in Chicago years ago. And he recorded the whole album himself. He played drums, he played bass, piano, guitar, vocals, background vocals – did everything himself. He’s got a van, a band and he’s ready to go out and work. And I can’t get him signed to a booking agency. They’re full and are just not taking on any clients. They don’t have enough staff. So it’s just difficult for musicians these days.”