Shotgun Reviews: The Column
By Troy Brownfield

3.15.06

After an enormous period of inactivity, we’re gearing up to run a revived and revamped ShotgunReviews.com. And I feel like I should explain.

Over time, we’ve had a series of personal and professional moves that have significantly altered the Shotgun status quo. When we started in 1999 (yes, 1999), we were all of us in our early to mid 20s, childless, and largely working crappy jobs that we fled from as soon as the end of the day arrived to hit bars and clubs (and occasionally, one another) as often as possible. As things progressed, the team changed, priorities changed, and this site that we basically worked on for free (although it did net us numerous opportunities) kind of fell by the wayside.

Flash-forward to 2005, which signified the greatest year of change that most of us have experienced. My son Connor was born in January, followed soon thereafter by the births of daughters to both Lyrical Lounge editor Jonathan Birdsong and our recently returned Rasslin’ Ring guy Russ Ray. In a less baby-oriented, but no less seismic shift, our webmaster and Shoe’s Music writer Shawn Delaney (and his wife Heather, herself a longtime designer for the site) moved to Seattle .

Needless to say, shit’s changed.

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