Cock a Doodle Dont

The Legendary Shack Shakers | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 22, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Bloodshot Records
• ASIN: B00008OM00
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #41,055 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Shakes My Shack, August 3, 2004

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Gianmarco Manzione (Tampa, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cock a Doodle Dont (Audio CD)

Ever wonder what it might be like to hear Elvis roaring over a mosh-pit on the moon? Well, you've clicked on the right link! If the epic duststorms of the Grapes of Wrath-era American plains ever had a soundtrack, this would be it. Featuring a tornado on harmonica and a locomotive on electric guitar, this album is a frenzied storm of sound from start to finish. Reinventing Slim Harpo with a sizzling take on "Shake Your Hips," these guys don't just shake the shack down; they char the ground it stood on. Not since Muddy Waters has anyone played the harmonica so rudely; the album plays like an audible time warp -- some lost great LP from the famed "Chess" label of Muddy, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter, Slim and Bo, perhaps. Equally as astonishing as this album's energy is the musical range it navigates. Addictive boogie-woogie blues like "Hunkerdown" and especially "CB Song" launch effortlessly into the ragtime hysterics of "Help Me From my Brain." Appealing to people from every destination along the spectrum of musical tastes, The Shackshakers serve up something for everyone. If their Tom Waits-ish clang doesn't drag you into the maelstrom of their glory, then maybe the banjo/fiddle freakouts will do the trick. This is the kind of stuff that can transform a Friday night game of bingo into a good old-fashioned rave.

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome stuff, July 11, 2004

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Ryan McNabb (Ooltewah, TN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cock a Doodle Dont (Audio CD)

I discovered this bunch of Yay-hoos when I was trying to find out who recorded the awesome, slimey, bluesy number I heard on a certain Geico insurance commercial. It was these guys, and the song is called "CB Song". Tone deaf friends would tap their toes to it - it was the hoochie coo anthem of the dark side of human existence. The Shack Shakers populate a twisted landscape of night creatures, where hillbillies run from lynch mobs, the Devil holds auctions on Saturday night, and cockfighting is the national sport. Awesome, bent stuff that is sure to get under your skin like a tattoo and ruin you for the vapid, uninspired garbage they play on the radio these days. These guys are ORIGINAL, a term you don't often apply to popular music. Do yourself a big favor and grab this album. Words don't do any justice - just play the cuts you can listen to here and see if you don't agree this is a cut above the regular bump and grind.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Shack shakin good time...., October 30, 2003

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Matthew F. Strickland (Redford, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cock a Doodle Dont (Audio CD)

If you are looking for something that is different, I mean really different, then this is it!! The Legendary Shack Shakers proud to present their latest release "Cockadoodledon't" courtesy of the folks at Bloodshot records in Chicago. Don't let the label fool you though, this is no alt country release like any I've ever come across.

Apparently not to be confused with the rockabilly band of the same name (featuring the same Col. J.D. Wilkes, the former Mr. Puniverse of the rockabilly world), the Legendary Shack Shakers put out a set o­n this CD that will amaze, confound and amuse.....or just plane blow out your eardrums if you've got the right track o­n too loud. Combining blues, rockabilly, hillbilly, country, punk and whatever they can get their hands o­n they've come up with their own deep-fried explosive sound. The boys have enlisted the use of just about every instrument in the book o­n "Cockadoodledon't"...harmonica, melodeon, banjo, keys, guitar, upright bass, drums, key accordion, mandolin and I even thought a heard a twangy little mouth harp in there.

The album slips from rockin' blues o­n songs like "Pinetree Boogie" to the jug band sound o­n "Clodhopper", from hard edge rock to ole timey. Vocally, sounding a bit like Reverend Horton Heat meets S.C.O.T.S. meets deliverance, Col. J.D. captures his manic-auctioneer-on trucker speed delivery perfectly. I will have to admit that some of singing through the harmonica mike did get o­n my nerves, but the album has a whole is sure to amuse.