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Shake The Roots

Shake The Roots. Acoustic music at its best

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Acoustic music for all occasionsShake the Roots.. are a Cheshire-based acoustic band.They perform both covers and original material,equally at home in concert,on the festival stage or at private functions,playing an eclectic mix of music including bluegrass, folk, rock'n'roll, country and blues.Shake the Roots can perform in many formats from a duo toa six-piece band, to suit any occasion.With their varied repertoire and experience, ..Shake the Roots.. areavailable for concerts, festivals, parties and weddings...Shake the Roots.. have their own P.A. suitable for mostsmall/medium-sized venues and will travel to most places!For excellent musicianship, good-time music and friendly banter,..Shake the Roots.. never fail to deliver...

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Member Since: 2/17/2007
Band Website: shaketheroots.co.uk
Band Members: Pete Wakefield lead and harmony vocals, songwriter, guitar and harmonica.


Loraine Baker Double Bass, lead and harmony vocals


Eleanor Cross Fiddle.


Bonz Barnes. Dobro, banjo, guitar, harmonica, lead and harmony vocals


hoola girl

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Influences: The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Steve Earle, Guy Clark, Loudon WainwrightIII, Eddi Reader, Boo Heweredine, Paul Burch, TheWiyos, Tom Waits, Lunasa, Jake Thackray, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Rolling Stones, Paul Weller, Ry Cooder, Van Morrison, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Bill Monroe, Tim O'Brien, Darrell Scott, MILLIONS MORE!

Penguin in The Bed

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Cant get by without you

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Midnight on the water

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ICE House

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Sounds Like: Fun!!!!
Record Label: independent
Type of Label: None

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Shake the Roots - Easy Come, Easy Go

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Posted by Shake The Roots on Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:04:00 PST

HAYSEED DIXIE SUPPORT GIG!!!

It's official, we will be supporting Hayseed Dixie at the M Club, Crewe, Cheshire on Friday 18th July, starting at about 8pm. Please come down for a great night of live music and entertainment!!!!
Posted by Shake The Roots on Sat, 12 Jul 2008 02:52:00 PST

Tracks from our CD on Myspace!!

We're slowly but surely replacing the old songs with new ones from the CD. At the moment we've got 'Waterbound', "Black-eyed Suzie"  and "I've got time" on there. More will follow a.s.a.p. P...
Posted by Shake The Roots on Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:14:00 PST

6 tracks from the CD now on our MySpace

Please have a listen to the 6 new tracks, recorded in Orchard Sudios, Oakhanger, Crewe. Hope youlike 'em!!
Posted by Shake The Roots on Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:48:00 PST

NEW CD AVAILABLE!!!!

We did it!!! We've completed the CD and we're VERY happy with it. It's selling well at gigs and we've had loads of positive feedback from folks who have bought it. It was nearly all recorded live...
Posted by Shake The Roots on Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:57:00 PST

Glastonbury/Conway festivals

We' ve had a couple of frantic weekends, playing at Glastonbury and at North Wales Bluegrass festivals. It's been great fun as well as hard work; at Glastonbury we had members of the audience doing a ...
Posted by Shake The Roots on Mon, 07 Jul 2008 04:22:00 PST

Shake the Roots in the studio!!

After too long doing the "band thing", i.e. telling everyone we're making a CD for the last 18 months, with no likelihood of it being complete for another 18 months, we've been popping down to a local...
Posted by Shake The Roots on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:36:00 PST

A new song on our space; PLEASE CHECK IT OUT!!!

Calling all 'Shake the Roots' friends!!! We've replaced one of the songs on our Space, with another original song called 'Down on the dark side'. It's the 3rd of the 3 we recorded from our live perfo...
Posted by Shake The Roots on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 03:39:00 PST

Videos added

We've added two videos of a recent gig. The first is 'penguin in the bed' and the second 'midnight on the water' but with lyrics, sung by Loraine. You may notice that there are an additional two membe...
Posted by Shake The Roots on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 02:39:00 PST

New song sample!!!!

Thought we should let y'all know about the new version of 'Can't get by without you' we've just uploaded onto our space. It's from the radio show we played live on, and it's a far better recording tha...
Posted by Shake The Roots on Thu, 29 Mar 2007 07:19:00 PST