A Scenic Hills Summer by Shannon Yarbrough

The loss brought the surviving band members back together to play a tribute show for him the following Christmas. On May 7, 2000, Shannon Yarbrough was killed in an automobile accident. Over the next two years, Taggart, Brooks, and Yarbrough moved to Brooklyn, New York, while White returned to Berkeley and continued to play with Pinhead Gunpowder, eventually joining Green Day. Unable to reach a consensus of where to move, the group disbanded. This incarnation of the band won local accolades, continued to write and record, and eventually toured the midwest and northeast United States with the thought of relocating.

Pinhead Gunpowder's Jason White (who had previously played in Chino Hoarde), moved back from Berkeley, California to Arkansas to replace him. In 1994, Shannon Yarbrough, Taggart's former bandmate in 5-0, joined the band. They made their live debut at a New Year's Eve party on December 31, 1993. Each of the members had grown up in and around Little Rock, Arkansas and played together in earlier bands. The Big Cats formed in 1993 following the breakups of Burt Taggart's previous band, Chino Horde, and Colin Brooks and Josh Bentley's band, Substance. They were formed in 1993 by members of various Little Rock punk bands, but shifted their sound from punk rock to early rock and roll. Besides writing, Shannon enjoys gardening, cooking, and reading.The Big Cats are an American rock band from Little Rock, Arkansas. Louis, Missouri home for the last two decades, where he lives with his partner of eighteen years, their two dogs, and two cats. He even wrote a mash-up of the life of poet Emily Dickinson with the story of Frankenstein.

From an obsessive-compulsive coffee barista searching for love in a romantic comedy to a Christmas dinner gone awry in a family psychodrama, Shannon constantly challenges his storytelling ability by rarely sticking to one genre. He’s been writing short stories and novels ever since.īorn in the South, Shannon fell in love with Southern literature in college and often pays homage to his Southern roots in his story settings and in the characters he creates. Shannon wrote and created a pop-up book of poetry out of cardboard and contact paper. To attend, each student had to write and publish their very own book. His school even hosted a Young Author’s Day Festival. Shannon Yarbrough knew he wanted to be a writer ever since his grade school passed out free black-and-white journals each year and made classrooms devote one hour a day to creative writing.

A Scenic Hills Summer by Shannon Yarbrough