When J.D. Wilkes sings “Well it’s Johnny Cash for Johnny Rotten / Johnny Horton for Johnny Ramone / He’s swapping out his records / For something more down home” on Cockadoodledeux, a celebration of the various iterations of his band, […]
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Welcome to the first No Depression new release column. I’ve already been adding new and upcoming albums for the past year or so, which I will continue to do, but this weekly column will give me a chance to go […]
Finally, after five long years, JD Wilkes and the best Shack Shakers lineup of all, in my modest opinion, are back with Southern Surreal. This release not only celebrates two decades of Legendary Shack Shaking, it also marks their debut effort on Alternative […]
I am pretty sure I am the only person who has ever worked out to The Legendary Shackshakers. Certainly, I was the only one in the gym crushing it (I can benchpress 40 pounds, guys!) to rockabilly. Clocking in at […]
The third of the Shackshakers’ southern gothic “Tentshow Trilogy” finds the Kentucky quartet knee deep in the rising loam at the bottom of a dark, boggy holler. It’s a haunting, godawful place, where toothbrushes are made of pig bristles, if […]
If you’re looking for clues as to what makes the Legendary Shack Shakers so bizarre, start with this album’s sixth track, “Somethin’ In The Water”. Over a junkyard jumble of honking saxes and plonking piano, baritoned lead singer Col. J.D. […]
If you’ve named your band the Legendary Shack Shakers, you’ve already convinced yourself you’re the hottest thing going, so the logical next step is to convince everyone else. If you’re “Colonel” J.D. Wilkes, the redoubtable frontman of the Shack Shakers, […]
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