Legendary Shack Shakers from Nashville

[Ladybee]

Ok, so this band is by no stretch of the imagination "gothic" or "industrial." However, I know there's a few folks on here who like gotha-/psycho-/rocka-billy music and other rootsy stuff so I figured i'd post about them anyhow. They're from Nashville so it's more likely that y'all will have a chance to see them than that they'll come back up my way any time soon.

Friday night we saw the Legendary Shack Shakers put on a hell of a great show at TT the Bear's...imagine if the Cramps threw away all their horror-schlock and decided to do an album based on, say, Nick Cave's novel And the Ass Saw the Angel, and you'd be pretty close to imagining this show. Crazy, fun, made you want to jump around and shoot guns at melons or beat someone who deserves it with a big stick.

The singer, Colonel J. D., spent a bit of time pulling down a section of the ceiling, and a bit more time humping some random guy from the audience that came up on stage, and throwing birds and goats [1] in an almost Tourettesian fashion at the audience. When he began to vigorously and angrily pick his nose during the guitar solo, i nearly lost my pee. And speaking of their guitarist...i cannot begin to describe how terrifying looking he was, in a truly wonderful way. He had that sort of skin-stretched-over-bones-with-a-bit-of-sinew physique that some hillbillies have, with big flat horse-teeth in an angry dog of a face. He planted his legs wide and played his guitar with such a range of terrifyingly transported grimaces and grins he might as well have been a Rat Fink eyepopping zombie caricature of himself... I hope these guys come back here, because i'd love to see them again.

Their official homepage is here: http://www.cockadoodledont.com/

[1] The representational hand gestures, not the livestock animals.