As a songwriter, musician,producer,author, and keeper of the American blues music flame,TheReverend Shawn Amos hasmade a name as both a teller of tales and an astute shaper of others’stories.The Revcomes by the storytelling chops naturally. The only child of William Morris agent-turned-cookie entrepreneur, Wally “Famous” Amos, and singer Shirley “Shirl-ee May” Ellis,young Shawn spent hours in shadowy nightclubs, on the funky streets of‘70s Hollywood, and inhis own broken home, listening intently to people’s stories. He helped make his father’s cookiehustle real. In young adulthood, he jumped from screenwriting for A & M Films to the stage,crafting acclaimed Americana music that wrestled with race and identity. On the other side of themicrophone, Shawn oversaw soul icon Solomon Burke’s last three albums, and produced seminalCD collectionsQ: The Musical Biography of Quincy Jones, and Grammy-nominated box setRhapsodies in Black: Music and Wordsfrom the Harlem Renaissance, among others.Since 2014, as the Reverend Shawn Amos, with harmonica in hand, Shawn has broughtblues to audiences from LA to Amsterdam, delivering unbridled joy–both live, and throughrecordings.With his band, The Brotherhood—drummer Brady Blade (Indigo Girls, Buddy & JulieMiller), bassist Christopher“CT”Thomas (Melody Gardot, Norah Jones, Macy Gray), andlongtime Rev guitarist Chris “Doctor” Roberts—,The Revhitthe Top 10BillboardBlues AlbumChartwith his 2020 releaseBlue Sky. The releasescored four out of five stars from American Songwritermagazine.The Cause of It Allfollowed in2022—astripped-down collection of bluesclassics, forged in quarantine harkeningback to historic pairings likeSonny Terry & BrownieMcGhee and Junior Wells & Buddy Guy.Alimited-runpodcast series ofthesame namecloselyfollowedin which The Revsat down withchildren of famous blues musicians.The interviews arenowpart of the University of Mississippi BluesArchive.For his 2022 debut novel,Cookies & Milk(published by Little, Brown), Shawn delvedintohis past to concoct a wildly entertaining story about the strength of family, and the power offorgiveness–plus just the right amount of semisweet chocolate–to mend hearts. Shawn’sdoppelganger, Ellis, embarks on hilarious and sometimes harrowing misadventures as he helps hisdad open the world’s first chocolate chip cookie store in the multihued‘70s landscape of music,ambition, and often-challenging elders.Cookies & Milkwas nominated for a 2023 NAACP ImageAward and iscurrently indevelopment for a Disney animated series with Laurence Fishburne asexecutive producer.A second installment in the series hits bookshelves October, 2023