The Legendary Shack Shakers

A roots rock and roll juggernaut from Nashville, Tennessee, the Legendary Shack Shakers certainly are a hot-rodded foursome merging blues, rockabilly, nation, and rock and roll & move into one manic assemblage boasting all of the gloriously explosive instability of the M-80. Originally made up of Colonel J.D. Wilkes on business lead vocals and harmonica, Joe Buck on acoustic guitar, Tag “The Duke” Robertson on upright bass, and Pauly Simmonz behind the drums, the Legendary Shack Shakers had been all members of varied renegade country works playing in Nashville’s notorious “Decrease Broadway” area, and Buck and Wilkes spent period playing on the highway within Hank Williams III’s music group. Presuming the Shack Shakers moniker in 2001, the music group quickly created a potent popularity because of its raucous live present, where the manic tempo from the music was matched up by Wilkes’ outrageous stage functionality, which gained him a citation as Nashville’s Greatest Frontman within the Music Town entertainment magazine Picture. After comprehensive touring with Hank Williams III and Southern Lifestyle over the Skids, the Legendary Shack Shakers self-released their initial Compact disc, Cockadoodledon’t, in early 2003; quickly afterward, the music group agreed upon with Chicago-based “insurgent nation” label Bloodshot Information, which reissued Cockadoodledon’t within the spring of this same calendar year. In 2003, Buck still left the Shack Shakers to try out with Hank III full-time, as well as the intensely tattooed David Lee had taken over on electric guitar; the brand new lineup from the music group transferred from Bloodshot to Yep Roc Reports for the discharge from the (relatively) more refined sophomore record, 2004’s Believe. In 2005, Simmonz still left the music group and was changed by Brett Whitacre. Their third record, Pandelerium, found its way to January 2006. The live Decrease Broad Lo-Fi premiered in 2007, implemented afterwards that same calendar year by Swampblood. Agri-dustrial made an appearance this year 2010, which highlighted guitarist Duane Denison, previously from the Jesus Lizard and Hank III’s street music group. Following a five-year layoff, the Legendary Shack Shakers came back in 2015 using a lineup offering Wilkes on vocals, blues harp, and banjo, Robertson on bass, Fishing rod Hamdallah on electric guitar, and Brett Whitacre on drums. The music group signed a cope with Choice Tentacles Information, which released the record The Southern Surreal with time for the Shack Shakers’ 20th wedding anniversary. When not active along with his musical profession, Wilkes can be referred to as a visual musician, posting comic books and creating complex “carnival artwork” murals on discarded roll-up projection displays.