Th' Legendary Shackshakers

Th' Legendary Shack*Shakers started their hell-for-leather, Penta-caustic roadshow just over two years ago, but the legend doesn't begin there. Front man and blues-harpist Col. J.D. Wilkes began yelpin, the blues thru a ham radio mike at his boyhood home in the Atomic City of Paducah, Kentucky... not far from where future bandmate and slap-bassist Mark Robertson was cutting his teeth on Punk Rock and Gospel music. Years later, when the two met, they found their separate styles and interests meshed well together. With the recent addition of David Lee, South Carolina's preeminent rock 'n' roll bad-ass and "Illustrated Man" extraordinaire, Th' Legendary Shack*Shakers have now become the best Southern Gothic amusement you can get for your hard-earned money. Melding the rural, agri-dustrial rhythms of America's puritan work ethic, the intensity of gutbucket blues, and even the madcap oompah of polka, the band has created a monstrous abomination...(Junkyard Carnival Punk?) And it is this sound that keeps them in high demand from Europe to the West Coast and all points in between.