Lonesome Shack new studio album Desert Dreams Out Today
LONESOME SHACK’S NEW STUDIO ALBUM “DESERT DREAMS” IS OUT TODAY VIA ALIVE NATURALSOUND RECORDS
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LONESOME SHACK KICKS-OFF WEST COAST TOUR IN BELLINGHAM, WA ON MARCH 9TH
Lonesome Shack’s Ben Todd (credit: Holly Birtles)
LONESOME SHACK 2019 TOUR DATES:
March 09 – The Firefly, Bellingham, WA
March 10 – The Tractor Tavern, Seattle,WA
March 11 – Turn! Turn! Turn!, Portland, OR
March 12 – The Siren’s Song Tavern, Eureka, CA
March 13 – Pike Bar, Long Beach, CA
March 14 – Ace Hotel, Palm Springs,CA
March 15 – EXO, Tucson, AZ
March 17 – Lunchbox, Phoenix, AZ
March 19 – The Garage, SLC,UT
March 21 – The Bartlett – Spokane, WA
March 30 – The Bloomsbury Club – London, UK
HERE’S WHAT CRITICS HAVE BEEN SAYING ABOUT DESERT DREAMS:
“Turn this one up, and you’ll feel it in your bones.” – AMERICAN BLUES SCENE
“There’s a lot in their music – a pinch of folk – guitarist Ben Todd wisely spent time transposing old banjo tunes to his finger picking style – a sprinkle of country blues and a swirl of Canned Heat boogie.” – AMERCANA UK
“Desert Dreams is the kind of music that promises to warm you up from the inside out. The feel of this recording is planted in yesteryear but cultivated firmly in the now.” – THE BLUEGRASS SITUATION
“Lonesome Shack’s new track ‘The City Is A Desert’ is anchored by a country blues refrain that has a touch of something primal about it and sounds like it could almost be a lost take from the Doors’ LA Woman.” – THE MAD MACKEREL
“… showcases Ben Todd’s finger picking guitar, with eerie blues vocals and a sound that seems to carry his love of North Mississippi blues as much as it does the West African guitar style of acts like Tinariwen.” – GLIDE MAGAZINE
“I know it’s early but mark my words: come curtains on December, Lonesome Shack’s Desert Dreams – the London-by-way-of-Seattle trio’s latest full-length player – will still be creeping under the skin of critics’ lists as a contender for one of the best records of 2019.
The LP, an absolutely hypnotizing blend of Junior Kimbrough-style deep-blues, urban folk and Fahey-esque slow expansion, is just that goddamn good.” –MUSIC TAP
“London by way of Seattle blues trio Lonesome Shack, cite everyone from Canned Heat to Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry as influences. And those eclectic sonic connections come through loud and clear.” – BLURT
“A potent blend of hypnotic Mississippi hill country blues and rangy folk-rock.”– KEXP
“At times moody, while at others insistently melodic, this is an album of great songs, genuine atmosphere.” – FEAR AND LOATHING
Receiving coast-to-coast airplay at BREAKTHRU RADIO – NYC, CFMU – Hamilton ON, KALX – Berkeley CA, KBRP – Bisbee AZ, KDHX – St. Louis MO, KEXP – Seattle WA, KOTO – Telluride CO, KPCW – Park City UT, KRFC – Fort Collins CO, KZMU – Moab UT, ROUTES & BRANCHES, WDET – Detroit MI, WFMU – Jersey City NJ, WGLT – Normal IL, WLTL – LaGrange, IL, WMMT – Whitesburg KY, WMSE – Milwaukee WI, WPKN – Bridgeport CT, WRIR – Richmond VA, WSFM – Asheville NC, WSUM – Madison WI, WTBU – Boston MA, WWOZ – New Orleans, LA
With a sound that is raw, expressive, and strange, Lonesome Shack’s music is part hill country blues, part urban folk rock, and owes as much to Alan Wilson’s Canned Heat as it does to Junior Kimbrough.
Formed in Seattle, and currently based in London, the trio is led by Ben Todd, a finger picking guitarist who has spent time living in a shack in the New Mexico desert. Alone in the Gila Wilderness, Ben learned how to play old blues and banjo tunes from vintage and traditional recordings.
Desert Dreams is a singular and poetic album of modern American music written at the tail end of a long, challenging winter in London. The result sounds like rock city meets backwoods boogie, desert blues meets jungle grooves.
Lonesome Shack is Ben Todd (guitar/voice), Kristian Garrard (drums), and Luke Bergman (bass).
Lonesome Shack’s Desert Dreams is out now on Limited Edition Vinyl, CD, digital and streaming formats via Alive Naturalsound Records. Click here to order the starburst vinyl