× Legendary Shack Shakers announce NL shows, promoting "The Southern Surreal"

Legendary Shack Shakers announce NL shows, promoting "The Southern Surreal"

17-01-2016

Taking in one of the Legendary Shack Shakers' thrilling, sometimes terrifying, live performances is akin to witnessing a gospel revival or even a snake-handling ceremony. And for good reason: the Kentucky band's magnetic leader, vocalist and harmonica maven J.D. Wilkes spent his formative years at a charismatic religious school, where he became obsessed with the rituals he encountered, from speaking in tongues to laying of hands.

On the Legendary Shack Shakers' new album "The Southern Surreal", the group's first in five years, he further dives into the abyss. The record, released via Jello Biafra's label Alternative Tentacles Records, is a collection of country, blues and rockabilly, all of it held together by bits of eerie, atmospheric sounds Wilkes recorded himself like a modern-day Lomax brother.

The result is an Americana gothic concept album, full of shadowy glimpses into a counterculture South, where Mothman sightings are common and legends run wild. Promoting this album the band will be in NL this spring for four shows:

28-04-2016: Heerlen (NL) @ De Nieuwe Nor
29-04-2016: Eindhoven (NL) @ Effenaar
30-04-2016: Hengelo (NL) @ Heartland Festival
08-05-2016: Vlieland (NL) @ Here Comes The Summer

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