The Legendary Shack Shakers @ RIBCO - September 22.

Friday, September 22, 9 p.m.

Rock Island Brewing Company, 1815 Second Avenue, Rock Island IL

Performing in support of the band's ninth album After You've Gone, released just last month, the rockabilly, blues, and Southern Gothic musicians of the Legendary Shack Shakers will be making their first appearance at RIBCO since November of last year.

Formed in Paducah, Kentucky, in the mid-1990s, the group released its album Hunkerdown in 1998, and spent much of the aughts touring alongside the likes of the Reverend Horton Heat, Robert Plant, and the Black Keys. Public awareness of the musicians' singular blues-rock stylings increased when GEICO used their “CB Song” track on its year-long “Sunglasses” TV ad, and increased further when their tune “Swampblood” was featured on the soundtrack for HBO's True Blood, a CD that went on to receive a Grammy Nomination for Best Compilation Soundtrack Album.

Saving Country Music magazine stated, “Their decidedly lo-fi sound mixes the influences of the deep and derelict blues with the fearful prayers of primitive Appalachian country and mountain music, and they boast arguably the best and most boisterous frontman to ever suck air in the incomparable JD Wilkes.” And in its review of After You've Gone, PopMatters.com raved, “[The] Legendary Shack Shakers have always channeled the energy and rawness of punk into their rockabilly- and psychobilly-drenched music. It's an irresistible mixture.”

The Legendary Shack Shakers perform locally with an opening set by Daddy Long Legs, tickets to the 9 p.m. concert are $10 in advance, and more information is available by calling (309)793-1999 or visiting RIBCO.com.

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