The Yazoo Shakes: Music to Feast to
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Based in Memphis, TN, The Yazoo Shakes are a family of musicians rooted in traditional Southern music and Blues and Jazz improvisation with an eye on heavy-hitting rock. As a band, they seek better understanding of music and life through the richness of their various musical sensibilities. They are lenses through which each of the others sees the world. Since 2007, The Yazoo Shakes have become a staple of Memphis music. They continually tour throughout the southern and midwest regions headlining note worthy venues such as Nashville’s Exit/In and Memphis’s own Hi Tone.
“The Yazoo Shakes are this bizarrely Memphis mixture of Tom Waits, Nick Cave, and Dr. John. They have the dark humor, storytelling and not quite-so-perfect vocals of Cave and Waits, and the soulful mix of rock and traditional Americana music that Dr. John captures so well.†www.brainreleasevalve.com
“This is modern music. This is the sort of music where there is no composer. It’s an extension of folk music...electric folk music with as much spiritual soulful expression as possible.†Michael Donahue, The Commercial Appeal
“The experimental quintet owes a musical debt to Captain Beefheart, the Insect Trust, and modern bands like the Gris Gris, as well as iconoclasts such as Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, and Howlin Wolf.†Andria Lisle, Memphis Flyer
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