Shannon & the Clams’ Shannon Shaw on Building Something Beautiful in the Wake of Tragedy

Shannon Shaw was on her way to check out an alternate venue for
her upcoming wedding and then to her bachelorette party one
August day in 2022 when she got word that Joe Haener, Shannon’s
fiancé, had been killed. His pickup had collided with another
pickup and he died right outside the fields of his family farm.
Shannon joins us to talk about the pain, the loss, the grief.and
the joy of knowing and loving Joe in the first place. One of the
ways she processed all this was to do what she does best: create
music. We hear about all that went into the intensely personal
album The Moon Is In The Wrong Place by Shannon & the
Clams.


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