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| Date |
City |
Venue |
Details |
| Sun 6/22/08 |
Atlanta, GA |
Masquerade Music Park |
$ |
| Tue 6/24/08 |
North Myrtle Beach, SC |
House of Blues |
$ |
| Thu 6/26/08 |
Knoxville, TN |
Pilot Light |
% |
| Fri 6/27/08 |
Nashville, TN |
Rocketown |
$ |
| Tue 7/1/08 |
Denver, CO |
Bender's Tavern |
% |
| Wed 7/2/08 |
Salt Lake City, UT |
Bar Deluxe |
% |
| Thu 7/3/08 |
Seattle, WA |
Tractor Tavern |
% |
| Fri 7/4/08 |
Portland, OR |
McCall Waterfront Park |
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| Fri 7/4/08 |
Portland, OR |
Dante's |
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| Sat 7/5/08 |
San Francisco, CA |
The Independent |
% |
| Thu 7/10/08 |
Sparks, NV |
Vixen |
% |
| Fri 7/11/08 |
Boise, ID |
Big Easy |
% |
| Sat 7/12/08 |
Bozeman, MT |
The Filling Station |
% |
| % Featuring a pre-show screening of Seven Signs |
| $ Supporting Rancid |
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The
Legendary Shack Shakers' hell-for-leather roadshow has earned
quite a name for itself with its unique brand of Southern Gothic
that is all-at-once irreverent, revisionist, dangerous, and
fun. Led by their wildly charismatic frontman/blues-harpist,
J.D. Wilkes, the Shack Shakers are a four-man wrecking crew
whose explosive interpretations of the blues, punk, rock and
country have made fans and critics into true believers.
With the recent addition of former Jesus Lizard guitarist Duane
Denison (Hank III/Tomahawk) and drumming wunderkind, Brett Whitacre,
the Legendary Shack Shakers have quickly become known for providing
some of the best entertainment (live or otherwise) that you
can get for your hard earned money.
As a budding filmmaker, "Colonel" J.D. has recently
made his directorial debut with the indie documentary "Seven
Signs." The film depicts a struggling Appalachian and Delta
culture that survives to this day, despite heavy modernization.
The film has won both critical acclaim and even the "Best
Featurette" trophy at Philadelphia's Backseat Film Festival,
before moving on to Cannes.
Described as "...the last great Rock and Roll frontman"
by Jello Biafra (of the Dead Kennedys), Shack Shakers front
man J.D. Wilkes began yelpin' the blues through a ham radio
microphone at his boyhood home of Paducah, Kentucky...a short
farmer's blow away from where his future bassist Mark Robertson
was cutting his teeth on punk rock and gospel music in Nashville,
Tennessee. When their paths crossed a few years later in the
lawless honky tonks of Music City's Lower Broadway scene, they
found their individuated styles and common interests meshed.
That's when the like-minded, red-headed musical misfits began
their crusade.
For the uninitiated, the band's debauched live show is the necessary
counterpart to their hard-hitting recordings. Hillbilly royalty,
Hank Williams III once said after touring with them that it
was "like having SLAYER open up for you every night,"
and called J.D. Wilkes and his crew, "the best damn front
man and band in America." On stage, J.D. Wilkes is like
a mad southern preacher with a bible in one hand and a glass
of strychnine in the other. Meshing Pentecostal themes with
pained lyrics and show-stopping moves that draw comparisons
to Tom Waits and the grotesque facial and bodily contortions
of Iggy Pop, the band has developed a live show like none other.
Having toured both the U.S and Europe relentlessly for the past
two years, the word of mouth on the live Shack Shakers experience
is so strong that it reached the likes of Robert Plant, who
made it a priority to see them at the 2005 SXSW Music Festival
in Austin, TX. One performance was all it took for Plant to
join the converted. After seeing the band's show at SXSW, Plant
invited the Shack*Shakers to support him on his Fall ’05
European tour. "It's F***ing Great," said Robert Plant
on the Legendary Shack Shakers.
"We try to tap into basic primal instincts," said
Wilkes. "Rock 'n' roll is a cathartic release. Anything
that doesn't realize that bestial nature isn't rock 'n' roll."
The band is also well known for "The CB Song", a.k.a:
the soundbed for the long-running "Sunglasses" Geico
commercial, featuring the famous gecko spokeslizard. The song
was even listed by author Stephen King as one of his top five
favorite tunes in a 2008 article in Entertainment Weekly.
In addition to his musical accolades, J.D. Wilkes has also been
recognized as an accomplished illustrator and painter whose
works further the band's mission of celebrating and honoring
the tradition of the American south. Alarm Magazine recently
described him as the "Ambassador of Genuine Traditional
Southern Culture" and compared his unique storytelling
abilities to that of other Southern voices such as William Faulkner,
Johnny Cash and Muddy Waters. |
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