Sand Sheff has been a cowboy, firefighter, minister, author, wilderness vagabond and recording artist. He has performed everywhere from campfires to Carnegie Hall. Sand Sheff (his real birth name) was born on June 4th, 1967 in Flagstaff, Arizona. H [+]Sand Sheff has been a cowboy, firefighter, minister, author, wilderness vagabond and recording artist. He has performed everywhere from campfires to Carnegie Hall. Sand Sheff (his real birth name) was born on June 4th, 1967 in Flagstaff, Arizona. He was raised in the foothills of the Ozarks in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. It was there that he learned how to play guitar. Moving west when he turned eighteen, Sand began performing regularly in Colorado and Utah. He released two desert-flavored cassettes, Quicksand Soup and Highway 666.
In 1995, he moved to Nashville to see if there was any room for his unusual brand of original music in the realm of corporate country. Once again, he met with some success. With his new band Buck 50 (the name has since been appropriated by an unrelated act) he recorded the album Red Dirt Road for the fledgling label Monkey Finger. Music Row Magazine called that record "the very definition of Americana" and it was compared to John Prine's debut in the Swedish Press. Sand and his band quickly made a name for themselves as one of the premiere live acts in Nashville. In early 1997, Buck 50 recorded what would become Clouds Turned to Horses. After Buck 50's break-up in the same year, Producer Marshall Morgan (Ricky Skaggs, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, The Whites) signed him on to cut yet another record. Turn me Around was Sand's biggest production to date, as Morgan enlisted a veritable who's- who of Nashville session men to complete the disc.
Sand left Nashville in 2000 and took a two-year hiatus from performing. This hiatus allowed for Sand to find his writing inspiration back in the open spaces of the West, write a book, sharpen his voice and help fight forest fires. He returned to performing in April 2002 with a triumphant performance of his "Survival Revival". His new band and sound is a musical bridge between rock and
country, hippie and cowboy. He currently lives and performs in Durango, Colorado.
On the heels of his recently compiled Nashville Anthology, is his newest CD Free On This Mountain , released in February 2004, is some of Sand's finest work yet. Stylistically, it weaves through folk, bluegrass and old campfire country, to jazz and rock. The CD includes the contribution of several veteran artists,
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