Stag-O-Lee Festival

New Shakedown shows!

posted July 28th, 2010

Yours truly recently recorded two new Shakedown shows that will be aired on webradio ByteFM on Wednesday, July 28 and August 11. Check into ByteFM at 2 pm German time and click Play.

Theme for both shows is Country Got Soul - which was the title of two awesome CD compilations of white Southern guys & gals mixing of soul, country, pop, rock, and swamp from the late '60s to the mid 1970s. Cool shit from Dan Penn, Larry Jon Shelton, Travis Wammack, Eddie Hinton, Bobbie Gentry, Tony Joe White and others. But I do not just play tracks from the two volumes, I did some deep digging in my foundation and came up with a lot of tunage that fits the bill, but didn't find a place on the two volumes. Lonnie Mack (from 69), Wet Willie (doin' a funky Grits & Groceries) and the awesome Boz Scagss debut (like many of those tracks recorded at Muscle Shoals) to name a few...

The second show on Aug 11 also features tunes from the upcoming Georgia Warhorse album by JJ Grey & Mofro, a current artist/band from Florida that is gritty, soulful and just great. Tune in!

Back from Sjock!

posted July 15th, 2010

Yo, I made it! I survived Sjock #35 and can only recommend the little festival in the middle of Belgium. The heat was sweltering, but I did my best not to dehydrate (hehe) and had the best pommes frites in ages (frites special - red/white with onions!). Loved the short distances from parking space to the festival ground, the crazy but friendly people and the general vibe. And the music! The guys who run this thing created a great mix of rock&roll, rockabilly, garage rock, surf and whatever else fits that universe.

My fave bands this in that order: 1. Jim Jones Revue (crackin rock & roll with the best singer I have seen in a long time); 2. Luis And the Wildfire (rocked the Titty Twister SoCal-style); 3. The Seatsniffers amazing, with Jim Carey on drums).

For a full travel report go to the shake baby shake-Blog - it is in German, however. See you next year!

Stag-O-Lee Summer Update!

posted July 6th, 2010

Excuse the lack of news on this page, but we're suffering from world cup fever. The performance of the German team exceeds our wildest expectations, so between games we lay low to be fit on the day of the game - just like our team. Two more to come for sure and I hope to see Germany in the finals - which most probably means that I will witness the game on the Sjock festival ground in the middle of Belgium with a lot of people in orange. I will miss the Jim Jones Revue on stage though... too bad.

However, behind the curtains of this webpage we are very busy setting up the Stag-O-Lee releases for the second half of 2010. These will be for sure: The Diplomats Of Solid Sound feat. The Diplomettes 45; Tokyo Sex Destruction - The Neighborhood (CD w/ 2 bonustracks - see pic); Cut In The Hill Gang - new LP/CD (with John W. Myers, the keyboarder of the Black Diamond Heavies in the studio and on the road); Tav Falco & Panther Burns - Behind The Magnolia Curtain (deluxe reissue) LP/CD. Plus some other stuff that has yet to be confirmed.

Both Cut In The Hill Gang and Tokyo Sex Destruction will tour Europe (or parts thereof) extensively in November. There will be a Stag-O-Lee Shakedown on September 2 at Peter Parker's Rock & Roll Club in London with a killer line-up as well as a few other surprises up our sleeves that are just waiting to see the light of day.

Yeah, and the Shakedown radio show every other Wednesday at 2 pm on webradio Byte.FM - the next one on July 14 will be a Rocksteady special with some tracks by The Impressions thrown in.

Stay tuned!

The Shakedown @ Byte.FM

posted June 29th, 2010

New Shakedown radio show on Wednesday, June 30. This show will be a special about the 35th Sjock festival that takes place in a small town in Belgium from July 9-11. An hour worth of tunes from the bands that play this year: Reverend Horton Heat, The Fleshtones, Legenadary Shack Shakers ,Li'l Gizzelle, The A-Bones, Jim Jones Revue, The Paladins, Luis And the Wildfires, Seatsniffers, Peter Pan Speedrock and others.

An intimate (I would guess 2.500 people) rock & roll festival that has the Stag-O-Lee stamp of approval. Check out Byte.FM at 2 pm German time and press PLAY!

And check out the Sjock website. There are more bands than I mentioned, some of them headliners!!!!