In addition, she has co-written four Number One singles for other country music artists, including Garth Brooks' "The River"[1] as featured on the multi-million selling album Ropin' The Wind and John Michael Montgomery's "I Love the Way You Love Me",[2] which won the 1993 Academy of Country Music[3] award for Song of the Year.

With Paul Worley, she is also the co-producer of the debut album of Lady A. Shaw was born in Manhattan, New York City, on July 13, 1962.

[4] Inspired by country rock musicians such as the Eagles and Linda Ronstadt, she began writing songs at an early age.

Three of this album's singles — "Cry Wolf", "Tears Dry" and "Forgiveness" — all reached the lower regions of the Hot Country Songs charts.

In 1995, Shaw received a Top New Female Vocalist nomination from the Academy of Country Music, losing to Chely Wright.

In 1998, Shaw collaborated with Brooks, Billy Dean, Faith Hill, Olivia Newton-John, Neal McCoy, Michael McDonald and Bryan White for a charity single (written for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation) entitled "One Heart at a Time", which charted at No.

Yearwood's rendition of the song, which was recorded as a duet with Brooks, served as the title track to her 1998 album Where Your Road Leads, from which it was released as a single.

Shaw also produced Jessie Farrell's second album, Good, Bad & Pretty Things, which was released in Canada in October 2009.