Atlanta singer-songwriter Shawn Mullins has had major adult alternative radio hits with "Lullaby and "Beautiful Wreck," and he recently co-wrote the great country number-one "Toes" -- the perfect song for when the weather in Michigan gets ugly. Shawn writes introspective original songs in an Americana framework that sound great either solo or with a band. He's been called Jewel with a Y chromosome, and he's looking like he's going to match her career staying power. Shawn's brand-new Vanguard-label album, "Light You Up," kicks his songwriting up a notch with a cycle of songs about the soul-killing temptations of the material world. The album is overflowing with perfect rhymes, telling detail and underlying glimpses of truth. This is uncommonly literate stuff, striking in its insightfulness and compassion, all delivered by Mullins in his companionable baritone. Shawn is something of an undiscovered treasure of Southern songwriting. Check him out!