Legendary Shack Shakers link up with Jello Biafra

The Legendary Shack Shakers version of "Rawhide!" w/ Jello Biafra is off their new album Cockadoodledeux out September 17th. 

Here's the scoop from Alternative Tentacles...

Join us now as those Legendary Shack Shakers mark their 25th anniversary as a band on Earth! To celebrate, they’ve welcomed former members to record an all country & western album! That’s right! From spaghetti western to bluegrass, western swing to rockabilly, Tex-Mex to Americana, the variety of the genre is on full display here friends!

Always ones to respect their history, the Shack Shakers have also invited a few local legends to “pick 'n' grin.” Kentucky stalwarts like Stanley Walker (Grand Ole Opry bandleader for Jean Shepard/Sun Studio guitarist for “Rockin’” Ray Smith) and Jack Martin (dobro-player for Lester Flatt) really give “them young ‘uns” a run for their money! And the always-ornery “Hillbilly” Bob Prather (Cajun fiddler and runnin’ buddy of Onie Wheeler) pitches in too! Just add the Dead Kennedys’ Jello Biafra, hillbilly royalty Chris Scruggs and an Old Crow Medicine Showman and you’ve got a recipe for what could ONLY be a Legendary Shack Shakers album!

 

Titling it Cockadoodledeux was admittedly, done as a reference to 2002’s legendary Cockadoodledon’t, an album which many fans were first made aware of the group. Indeed, this record was designed to bookend that other album. Cockadoodledeux serves to signal a bold new era. 

Just as the plucky, two-headed chick emerges from it’s egg on the cover, so too begins a fresh start for the bands’s creative energies. A millennium of fans both young and old, once again, get to lean in, listen and – as always – expect the unexpected!

You can pre-order a copy of The Legendary Shack Shakers new album Cockadoodledeux from Alternative Tentacles right here. Note: Albums will ship in October, 2021. Watch the video for "Rawhide!" below. 

JD Wilkes enlists Bo-Keys & Jimbo Mathus for "Fire Dream" solo debut

"Walk Between The Raindrops" is off the Shack Shaker's Fire Dream album due February 16 on Big Legal Mess. 

JD Wilkes - Fire Dream

Imagine a sideshow blowing in on a Caribbean gale, only to land smack dab in a Kentucky junkyard. Then, and only then, might a listener begin to picture a suitable setting for Fire Dream, the latest solo album by musician/novelist J.D. Wilkes slated for release February 16th on Big Legal Mess via Fat Possum.

Backed by an all-star cast of the South's most eclectic musicians – including members of The Bo-Keys, Squirrel Nut Zippers and the Drive-By Truckers – Wilkes crafts a soundscape of his homeland's varied voices with the assistance of session producers Jimbo Mathus and Bruce Watson.

From the old-time music of Appalachia to the Cajun, jazz and island music of the Creole nether-glades, Fire Dream charters the listener on a journey... a journey, as it turns out, that has led only deeper into J.D.'s storied psyche.

J.D. Wilkes & The Dirt Daubers @ The Horseshoe, Saturday

Check out Shack Shaker J.D. Wilkes' latest album Wild Moon produced by Cheetah Chrome.