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!
Shake the Roots are a Cheshire-based acoustic band who play an eclectic mix of music inspired by many genres including Folk, Celtic, Bluegrass, American Old Time as well as original songs composed by band member Pete Wakefield. Seven tracks on the CD were written by him.
Our first CD, "Don't move...!" was recorded at Orchard Studios, Oakhanger, Crewe, Cheshire in April 2008. All tracks were recorded live, with only harmony vocals being overdubbed, and fiddles on track 12.
The CD’s title comes from track 11, its’ full title being, “Don’t move, there’s a Penguin in the bed”, written by Pete after a friend had related to him a strange dream involving a Penguin! This is one of our most requested songs and whole audiences can often be seen chanting its’ title at the top of their voices!!
Much of our non-original material comes from the ‘Old Time’ American Folk genre, mixed in with the songs of Hank Williams, Steve Earle, Bob Dylan, The Beatles and others.
We play at festivals and Folk clubs all over the U.K; the highlight of 2008 being a performance at Glastonbury’s ‘Croissant Neuf’ Bandstand.
We spend most of our spare time going to gigs, large and small, so we may end up in the front row at one of yours!
Please come and see us if you're anywhere near our gigs, and feel free to contact us for any reason, especially if you want to buy our CD for £8.50 incl. postage!!
We're hoping to have a quiet winter so that we can plan our itinerary for next year. Maybe we'll see you at a few festicals in Spring/Summer 2009?!
Thanks for looking!
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Hi there! We're holding a competition at SUPERSWEET (www.supersweet.org) and you could win an exhibition at Beyond Retro as part of their "East End Lights" series + a month’s worth of exposure on our digital Art Gallery in Feb 2010. To find out more... For Art entries, go to: www.tinyurl/Project-Recycle-Art For Fashion entries, go to: www.tinyurl/Project-Recycle-Fashion Thanks! SS x
Thanks for the add!!! It's always a good thing to have new friends! Y'all are an inspiration!!!
Hope you dig our music - we had a great time makin' it! The music on our page is some of our "pop-ier" stuff - check out "Buginajar" or "I Love You" - I think you'd enjoy them!
If you like our music, download it (for FREE) and share with your friends. We made it to be enjoyed.
Thanks again for the add, and we hope to hear more from you
Dave Cash played songs from our album Walking on Steel on his country music show on BBC radio Kent on April 6th, listen again at www.bbc.co.uk/kent
On Sunday April 13th at 8 PM McKenZie will be talking to Paul West who presents The New Country Show on Hope FM Radio about their album, Walking on Steel. Please tune in to www.hopefm.com (90.1 FM) to hear a great country music show, thanks for the ad!
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