Light You Up

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Light You Up
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Studio album by
ReleasedOctober 12, 2010
Genre Folk rock, pop, Americana
Label Vanguard
Producer Shawn Mullins & Gerry Hansen
Shawn Mullins chronology
Live at the Variety Playhouse
(2008)
Light You Up
(2010)
My Stupid Heart
(2015)

Light You Up is the eighth studio album release from singer-songwriter Shawn Mullins. [1]

Track listing

  1. California
  2. Light You Up
  3. Murphy's Song
  4. No Blue Sky
  5. The Ghost of Johnny Cash
  6. Tinseltown
  7. I Knew a Girl
  8. Catoosa County
  9. You Make It Better
  10. Can't Remember Summer
  11. Love Will Find a Way

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References

  1. "Light You Up - Shawn Mullins - Songs, Reviews, Credits - AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 25 August 2017.