Shakey Graves
NewMusicForOldFolks says …
Shakey Graves is yet another reason to record Austin City Limits every week. Appearing after Ryan Adams a couple of weeks back, Austin's Alejandro Rose-Garcia, also known as Shakey Graves, more than held his own following the bigger star. It's either soulful Folk or folky Soul depending which direction you're coming from. Either way it's well crafted Americana music. The newest album, … And The War Came, features a couple of duets with Esme Patterson, the first of which, "Dearly Departed," has produced an excellent music video. Check it out, and then check out Shakey Graves.
Artist's Info
Website: shakeygraves.com
See him live: Tour dates
Record company: Dualtone Music Group
Genre: Americana
If you like this, look into: Houndmouth, Heartless Bastards, Justin Townes Earle
Bio (From AllMusic.com)
Shakey Graves is the stage name of Austin, Texas-based "hobo folk" singer, songwriter, and musician Alejandro Rose-Garcia. Raised in an artistically creative family, Rose-Garcia is perhaps better known as an actor, having appeared in several movies, including Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003), Material Girls (2006), and Shorts (2009), and he had a recurring role as part of the television series Friday Night Lights. As a musician using the Shakey Graves moniker, he developed a fascinatingly original alt-folk one-man band approach, and his songs match the approach, original and unpredictable, a kind of ragged melancholic blend of country and blues, with a pop melodic sense and often hauntingly beautiful. He released a debut album, Roll the Bones, in 2011, and followed it with And the War Came in 2014.
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… AND THE WAR CAME (2014): Alejandro Rose-Garcia is professionally known as Shakey Graves, and with his 2014 record, And The War Came, he extends the ground-emotionally and sonically-broken by his 2011 self-released debut album, Roll The Bones, which brought him national acclaim and, three years later, still ranks near the top of Bandcamp's digital best-seller charts. To record And The War Came, co-producer/collaborator Chris Boosahda brought all of his gear to Rose-Garcia's house and converted the space into a big, open studio. Though the signature Shakey Graves set-up remained the starting point, other instrumentalists came in and multiple, wildly different arrangements of the songs were attempted for what was initially planned as a double album.
Others
Roll The Bones (2011)
