The ‘Shakers whip up a witches brew of hillbilly hellfire and blues brimstone. The locomotive rhythms of traditional bluegrass, the intensity of Mississippi roadhouse blues, and the full on sonic assault of Slayer create a fertile and jumpy hybrid that will leave you a helpless, sweaty mess. “CockADoodleDon’t” strikes you with force of Jerry Lee Lewis, Iggy Pop, and Elmer Gantry showing up for a bar fight. The Shakers will have you dancing giddily into the fires.
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Ever wonder what it might be like to hear Elvis roaring over a mosh-pit on the moon? Well, you’ve clicked on the right link! If the epic duststorms of the Grapes of Wrath-era American plains ever had a soundtrack, this would be it. Featuring a tornado on harmonica and a locomotive on electric guitar, this album is a frenzied storm of sound from start to finish. Reinventing Slim Harpo with a sizzling take on “Shake Your Hips,” these guys don’t just shake the shack down; they char the ground it stood on. Not since Muddy Waters has anyone played the harmonica so rudely; the album plays like an audible time warp — some lost great LP from the famed “Chess” label of Muddy, Howlin’ Wolf, Little Walter, Slim and Bo, perhaps. Equally as astonishing as this album’s energy is the musical range it navigates. Addictive boogie-woogie blues like “Hunkerdown” and especially “CB Song” launch effortlessly into the ragtime hysterics of “Help Me From my Brain.” Appealing to people from every destination along the spectrum of musical tastes, The Shackshakers serve up something for everyone. If their Tom Waits-ish clang doesn’t drag you into the maelstrom of their glory, then maybe the banjo/fiddle freakouts will do the trick. This is the kind of stuff that can transform a Friday night game of bingo into a good old-fashioned rave.
I discovered this bunch of Yay-hoos when I was trying to find out who recorded the awesome, slimey, bluesy number I heard on a certain Geico insurance commercial. It was these guys, and the song is called “CB Song”. Tone deaf friends would tap their toes to it - it was the hoochie coo anthem of the dark side of human existence. The Shack Shakers populate a twisted landscape of night creatures, where hillbillies run from lynch mobs, the Devil holds auctions on Saturday night, and cockfighting is the national sport. Awesome, bent stuff that is sure to get under your skin like a tattoo and ruin you for the vapid, uninspired garbage they play on the radio these days. These guys are ORIGINAL, a term you don’t often apply to popular music. Do yourself a big favor and grab this album. Words don’t do any justice - just play the cuts you can listen to here and see if you don’t agree this is a cut above the regular bump and grind.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Perfect
I was looking for a band that mixed the influences of GWAR, Dolly Pardon, AC/DC, Carl Orff and the Jonas Brothers into one Album.
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If you are looking for something that is different, I mean really different, then this is it!! The Legendary Shack Shakers proud to present their latest release “Cockadoodledon’t” courtesy of the folks at Bloodshot records in Chicago. Don’t let the label fool you though, this is no alt country release like any I’ve ever come across.
Apparently not to be confused with the rockabilly band of the same name (featuring the same Col. J.D. Wilkes, the former Mr. Puniverse of the rockabilly world), the Legendary Shack Shakers put out a set on this CD that will amaze, confound and amuse…..or just plane blow out your eardrums if you’ve got the right track on too loud. Combining blues, rockabilly, hillbilly, country, punk and whatever they can get their hands on they’ve come up with their own deep-fried explosive sound. The boys have enlisted the use of just about every instrument in the book on “Cockadoodledon’t”…harmonica, melodeon, banjo, keys, guitar, upright bass, drums, key accordion, mandolin and I even thought a heard a twangy little mouth harp in there.
The album slips from rockin’ blues on songs like “Pinetree Boogie” to the jug band sound on “Clodhopper”, from hard edge rock to ole timey. Vocally, sounding a bit like Reverend Horton Heat meets S.C.O.T.S. meets deliverance, Col. J.D. captures his manic-auctioneer-on trucker speed delivery perfectly. I will have to admit that some of singing through the harmonica mike did get on my nerves, but the album has a whole is sure to amuse.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best Intro to the Shakers
If you have been told about the Legendary Shack Shakers, and are wondering which album to start with, this would be it.
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remember ramond jackson
hi. shack i hope you remeber me i am the drummer that played on the tracks you cut at stax when we three the writing team that wrote and recorded with you .
5.0 out of 5 stars
Southern fried boogie
The Legendary Shack Shakers let loose with some of the most energetic rockabilly/blues/bluegrass you’ll ever hear. Add a dash of punk rock to that mix too.
5.0 out of 5 stars
SHACK SHACKERS ARE THE SHIZZITT!
Iggy Pop, The Sex Pistols, and Jason & The Scorchers got together and had a baby. They named it The Legendary Shack Shakers.
5.0 out of 5 stars
crazy hillbilly music!!
These guys rule! This disc is a must for fans of Rev. Horton Heat or anything on Fat Possum. I saw this band open for The Black Keys and they blew the roof off the place!
4.0 out of 5 stars
Fun, dumb, loud cowbilly cacophonies
A good, silly raunchabilly outing, with a slinky roots-R&B edge, kinda like Tony Joe White backed by the Cramps.