Mississippi Shakedown

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Mississippi Shakedown is a Band with a minimum of FUSS and a maximum of EFFECT. A 4-piece unit led by Blues charged SLIDE GUITAR, with a "Don't Bore Us, Get to the Chorus" attitude! With influence from the deep south, these guys have heart. This band was not created to play in a restaurant.

Just take a listen to their current 5 CDs ... Mississippi Shakedown, all original songs, with an original attitude...the band takes no prisoners on their journey to Shakedown an audience ... once seen, never forgotten, once heard ALWAYS loved..!!!

With GRAND performances at the Goulburn, Thredbo, Launceston, Newcastle, Forth Valley, Junee, Gosford, Davistown and Sydney Blues Festivals, and hundreds of gigs in Sydney, Perth, Tasmania, Canberra and the East Coast, it has been proven without a shadow of a doubt, Mississippi Shakedown never fails to please an audience, whether it be an audience of Blues Aficionados, or Joe Public… Mississippi Shakedown is the REAL DEAL!!!

There are FIVE CDs on sale right now,
Mississippi Shakedown,
Right Here Right Now,
The Blues Lives Here,
I Don't Know What I'd Do Without You, (But I Sure Would Like To Find Out)

and the newly released 5TH CD..!!!.

Fronted by Mississippi Jeff Cripps, three times Australian Blues Music Awards: Producer Of The Year on slide guitar and vocals, with Wayne Leffler on Mandolin, Harp, Guitar and Vocals, the Band is driven by John Gannon on bass with Derek Smith on drums in the engine room!!

Mississippi Shakedown is the REAL DEAL..!!!

MISSISSIPPI SHAKEDOWN VIDEOS: -

Amazing Grace - Mississippi Shakedown Live at the Goulburn Blues Festival 2012

The Twist - Mississippi Shakedown live at Goulburn Blues Festival 2012

One Door Shuts - Mississippi Shakedown live at Goulburn Blues Festival 2012

Drum Duet at "The Blues Lives Here" CD Launch September 2009

She's What The Blues Look Like Live at The Oxford Tavern Wollongong Jan 2009

The Blues Lives Here Live at The Oxford Tavern Wollongong Jan 2009

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Track listing:
1. We're Gonna Have A Party
2. Deeper In Debt
3. When You're Dead You're Dead
(when you're gone you're gone)
4. Everybody Who Prays Don't Go To Heaven
(everybody who sin don't go to hell)
5. Something Comes Into My Mind
6. Exile On Chapel Street
7. Something So Right
8. Come To Memphis (one more time)
9. One Step Forward (two steps back)
10. Lefty's Groove
11. We Ain't Got The Blues (we're gonna have a real good time)
12. I Believe My Time Ain't Long
13. North Georgia

Track listing:
1. We've All Got A Cross To Bear
2. I Dont Know What I'd Do Without You But I Sure Would Like To Find Out
3. One Door Shuts, Another Door Slams
4. Bad News Travels Fast(good News Travels Slow)
5. I Wish You the Best
6. Even My Enemies Love Me
7. Gotta Get Lucky Sometime
8. Ring Of Fire
9. How Can I Be Thirsty (when I Had So Much To Drink Last Night)
10. I'm Gods Gift To Women (just Ask Me I'll Tell You So)
11. Use It Or Lose It
12. So Long

Track listing:
1. The Blues Lives Here
2. Rock and Roll - Part 1
3. She's What The Blues Looks Like
4. There Ain't No Need To Worry (cause things ain't gonna work out no how)
5. Amazing Grace
6. I Wish Every Night Was Saturday Night
7. My Baby's Like An Automobile
8 .Time To Kill
9. Tuff
10. Little Miss Dynamite
11. I Haven't Got A Hold Of The Bottle (The Bottle's Got A Hold Of Me)
12. I've Even Lost The Blues
13. If You leave Here Tomorrow

Track listing:
1. Keep Those Homefires Burnin'
2. Right Here Right Now
3. Mean and Evil
4. Drinkin'
5. Mississippi Minor
6. Extra Mile
7. Fool's Paradise
8. Talk In Texas
9. I've Had A Really Bad Day
10. Man Of The Century
11. The Twist

Track listing:
1.Talkin' To My Baby
2. This Is The Finish
3. Saturday Night
4. Mamma
5. This Is Paradise
6. Tahitian Boogie
7. A Hard Man
8. Latino Mississippi
9. The Way You walk
10. 7 Day Weekend
11. I Married Dizzy Miss Lizzy

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