As a songwriter Shawn had his song "Old Cook Pot", recorded by Canadian group The Duhks and reached #2 on the Americana charts.  In 2020 Shawn was also awarded grand prize in the American Songwriter Magazine lyric contest with "Love Was Just a Word" a song written for his baby boy Arlo. In 2022 Shawn was asked to play lead guitar in the fictional "Roman Family Band" for Fox's prime time drama "Monarch" starring Trace Adkins and Susan Sarandon. These days Shawn spends most of his time in his studio noodling away writing songs, producing, mixing and composing music for TV and film for companies like HBO, Showtime, Alloy Tracks and Imagine Entertainment.