Stephen Mougin is No Ordinary Soul

Photo By Elliot Lopes Stephen Mougin doesn’t live up to the title of his debut album, Ordinary Soul. The multi-talented label head is anything but ordinary. Not only does he run Dark Shadow Recordings, which he founded, but balances his time between his longtime sideman job with the Sam Bush Band, teaching, producing, engineering, singing, and songwriting. He had wanted to devote time to record his own project, but he’s a giver who was focused on other musicians’ endeavors.  “I’m not sure that I was totally ready to make one on my own just yet,” Stephen Mougin told Bluegrass Unlimited in an interview from his Nashville-area home. “I’m so much more comfortable helping other people do what they are interested in music, whether it’s teaching or producing or recording or any of those kinds of things. It’s just a little more challenging to look back at myself and make stuff happen.” Mougin has led others to the path of success with as the IBMA 2020 “Sound E