As a musician, Shawn Brown views his songwriting as an escape, hoping listeners feel the same way about his music. “Road of Bones,” the singer-songwriter’s latest single, is very much in line with that goal, a classic folk country road tune, tying together life’s struggles with personal growth and using that growth to form and fasten personal connections with others close to you. It goes a little further down the route of a pop-rock song than his previous output, last year’s The Rain Parade EP. “Road of Bones” was written recently, after the writing and recording of The Rain Parade, as Brown further broadens his horizons and grows in his confidence as a songwriter. Songwriting is Brown’s salvation as a young performer beginning to make a name for himself in his locale of Portland, Oregon. ...