The Legendary Shack Shakers

The Legendary Shack*Shakers started their
hell-for-leather roadshow just over one year ago, but
their collective musical experience goes back a bit
further. Front man “Colonel” J.D. Wilkes began
blowing the blues-harp at his boyhood home in Paducah,
Kentucky…not far from where future band mate,
JoeBuck, was learning most of the Hank Williams
songbook.

Years later, when the two met in the lawless
honky-tonks of Nashville’s “Lower Broadway” district,
they found their separate styles and interests meshed
well together.

With the addition of doghouse bassist Mark “the
Duke” Robertson and hard-rocking drummer Pauly
Simmonz, the group has since gone on to become the
best Southern Gothic rock&roll amusement you can get
for your hard-earned money.

Melding the locomotive rhythm of traditional
Bluegrass with the intensity of Mississippi roadhouse
Blues, the band has created a unique, hybrid sound of
mostly original material. And it is this rockin’ sound
that keeps them in high demand from New York City to
the West Coast and all points in between.
Along the way, they bring with them an eye-popping
display of authentic sideshow hum buggery, thus lending
even more color to their peculiar pageant of
vaudevillian exuberance.

They have been called “The best damn band in
America” by Hank Williams III…and their new record
“Cockadoodledon’t” has been called “the best American
music being made today” by Jason “and the Scorchers”
Ringenberg.

The band routinely tops the lists of Nashville’s
alt-weekly picks and has been named one of Nashville’s
Best Live Shows year after year.

Colonel J.D. (whose antics have drawn comparisons to
David Byrne, Iggy Pop and Hasil Adkins) was also voted
Nashville’s “Best Front Man” by the Nashville SCENE.
But don’t take their word for it. Find out for
yourself by having the Legendary Shack*Shakers play
YOUR next get-together!