Top tracks
Listeners also bought
Other Beatles-pop albums
Other 60's Rock albums
Put your hands on the remote! browse music »
What Nature Intended by Shane Fontayne
view larger image
fave it Beatles-pop | 60's Rock
15 tracks | 63 minutes
Released Feb 2003
on Mile End Records
Click 
for a 30-second preview. All tracks are 192kbps high fidelity sound quality. Protected WMA $0.77 or unprotected MP3 $0.88.
listen album 30sec. shuffle buy CD review album promote album
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:19 Weight Of The World lyrics BUY MP3 05:19 Weight Of The World lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:19 Weight Of The World
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:25 Little Napoleons lyrics BUY MP3 05:25 Little Napoleons lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:25 Little Napoleons
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:42 Cut From The Same Cloth lyrics BUY MP3 04:42 Cut From The Same Cloth lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:42 Cut From The Same Cloth
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:54 Spin It lyrics BUY MP3 03:54 Spin It lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:54 Spin It
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:17 Serenade lyrics BUY MP3 01:17 Serenade lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:17 Serenade
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:56 Marlene lyrics BUY MP3 03:56 Marlene lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:56 Marlene
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:28 So High lyrics BUY MP3 04:28 So High lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:28 So High
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 02:55 Bubble & Squeak lyrics BUY MP3 02:55 Bubble & Squeak lyrics "GIFT MP3" 02:55 Bubble & Squeak
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:38 It's Only Love lyrics BUY MP3 04:38 It's Only Love lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:38 It's Only Love
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:51 Weigh Down Into Gold lyrics BUY MP3 04:51 Weigh Down Into Gold lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:51 Weigh Down Into Gold
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:20 Burmese Inertia lyrics BUY MP3 04:20 Burmese Inertia lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:20 Burmese Inertia
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:01 There's Only Room For Me lyrics BUY MP3 05:01 There's Only Room For Me lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:01 There's Only Room For Me
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 06:00 Voodoo In The House lyrics BUY MP3 06:00 Voodoo In The House lyrics "GIFT MP3" 06:00 Voodoo In The House
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 05:21 You'll Never Know lyrics BUY MP3 05:21 You'll Never Know lyrics "GIFT MP3" 05:21 You'll Never Know
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 01:31 Orchestral Napoleons lyrics BUY MP3 01:31 Orchestral Napoleons lyrics "GIFT MP3" 01:31 Orchestral Napoleons
The guitarist for Springsteen, Maria McKee, Paul Simon, Marc Cohn, and more steps out with driven melodic songs with distinct British overtones. Driving & sardonic, ethereal & lush. For the rock connoisseur.
Editorial review
After 30-plus years of guitar troubadourship that found him supporting, jamming, or writing with everyone from Mick Ronson and Steve Forbert to Lone Justice and Marc Cohn, Shane Fontayne has issued What Nature Intended, his debut solo album. As he's no stranger to studio work, the album's impeccably crafted sonics are no surprise. What is remarkable is Fontayne's ability to craftily unify his stylistic wanderlust, even if his experiments don't always bear fruit. He seems to have picked up unique pebbles from each stop on his lengthy tour as a talented hired gun, and placed each one carefully into a personal musical mosaic. Like Matt Johnson or Karl Wallinger, Fontayne is adept at gritty, erudite album rock that takes full advantage of studio technology to dose it in atmospherics. "Spin It" and "Bubble & Squeak" are crackling guitar songs with patched-in programming and clavinet, moving on an exposed electric current that terminates somewhere down the crazy river. But he moves earnestly into finger-popping, vintage R&B for "There's Only Room for Me," and "So High" seems to be built entirely of gossamer vocal harmonies that drift on a magic raft of psychedelia. These tangents aren't as successful as Nature's main thrust, but Fontayne has to be forgiven some self-indulgence. It's his first chance to record a batch of his own songs, after all, and the liner note image of his solitary form strolling into the desert, trusty guitar in hand, lets listeners know he's a restless soul. Luckily, Fontayne often sounds like he's swallowed a bucket of that sand. This ensures plenty of vocal texture as he sings about love and life's lessons learned. Likewise, his varied six-string work -- complemented by high-powered appearances from pals like trumpeter Chris Botti's turn on "Voodoo in the House" -- makes What Nature Intended a pretty comfortable handmade quilt that chronicles one man's long strange trip. ~ Johnny Loftus, All Music Guide
Bio / Background
As a guitarist, Shane Fontayne has toured, performed and recorded with Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon, Marc Cohn, Steve Forbert, Shania Twain, Rod Stewart, Bryan Adams, Mick Taylor and John Waite. He has collaborated as a writer and co-producer with Waite and also with Maria McKee, as a member of Lone Justice.
In 2000, Shane embarked on a career as a solo artist, mostly performing in the Los Angeles area. His debut solo CD "What Nature Intended" is being played on the prestigious KCRW radio station in Santa Monica,CA.
Kastle Wasserman wrote in the L.A.Times that Shane's solo material is "impressive" and in her Los Angeles @ nite web page she writes:
"....I was delighted to make a discovery of my own. I happened upon a set by guitarist Shane Fontayne (who played with Lone Justice and Bruce Springsteen during the non-E Street years). This guy has the kind of voice you'd hear in old fashioned Christmas carols and the stage presence of a confident, seasoned performer.
↓ more ↓