Renegade blues-rocker Big Shanty’s
sonic rain of acid guitars and synth beats blasted across the Internet, Satellite and
College radio in ’07 with his anti-war song "Killing Fields" and went
number-one for five-weeks on "Blues Critic" singles chart. Big Shanty’s CD
“Ride With The Wind” stayed top-ten in their album chart for five-months, his
single was nominated as "Best Blues Song and Shanty was nominated as "Best New
Artist". Topping the list of amazing kudos for the year "Real Blues
Magazine" selected Big Shanty’s album as the "#1 Blues Album of 2007".
Big Shanty mixes Retro with Techno, Delta Blues and Club Beats to energize his
taken-from-life stories and fans have downloaded his original songs over a quarter-million
times from KingMojo.com, his Indy label’s free download website.
Internationally; Big Shanty hit number-one on Paris’s Internet blues giant
“Midnight Special” and went top-ten on Internet blues stations in Australia,
Belgium and Scandinavia. From London’s “UK ROCK Magazine” to Chicago’s
“Downbeat Magazine”, Big Shanty’s album received rave reviews across the
music media and remarkably all without the benefit of major label backing, corporate radio
airplay, MTV, or any assistance from the music biz’s star-making machinery.
On “Ride With The Wind” Big Shanty delivered a brilliant collection of songs and
media reviewers compared him to the White Stripes, Lonnie Brooks, Jimi Hendrix, Root Boy
Slim and Neil Young. Big Shanty aspired to measure up to the high praise on his new album
and invited some great friends like, legendary Godfather of Jam-Bands, Col. Bruce Hampton;
The amazing blues guitar diva, Liz Melendez; Cutting edge guitarists, Spencer Kirkpatrick
and Chris Blackwell; The driving basses of Dustin Sargent and Kevin Scott; The Roadhouse
88's of Rick Phillips and the unrivaled drums of Scott Robertson… these self-styled
bohemians of rock’n blues gathered at Atlanta’s STR studios in late 2008 and
came out with a swarm of raw, rocking, high-octane Blues on the new album, Big Shanty Sold
Out… Enjoy. Mark Pucci Media |
The
Players:
1. Big Shanty, From Lower Alabama To Hollywood* 4:38 ~ Big Shanty; vocals & acoustic slide guitar, Scott T.
Robertson; drums, Kevin Scott; bass, Rick Phillips; piano, Liz Melendez; chorus
2. Love
Train* 4:18 ~ Big Shanty vocals & slide
guitar, Scott T. Robertson; drums, Spencer Kirkpatrick; solo guitar, Dustin Sargent; bass,
Liz Melendez; chorus
3. Kiss The
Eight Ball** 4:06 ~ Big Shanty; vocals & slide guitar, Scott T.
Robertson; synth & drums, Spencer Kirkpatrick; solo guitar, Dustin Sargent; bass, Liz
Melendez; chorus
4. They
Say Its Raining* 4:30 ~ Big Shanty; vocals &
slide guitar, Scott T. Robertson; drums, Dustin Sargent; bass
5. Walking
Shoes* 5:01 ~ Big Shanty; vocals & slide
guitar, Scott T. Robertson; drums, Kevin Scott; bass, Rick Phillips; B3 organ, Chris
Blackwell; solo guitar
6. Stop
Pushing Me** 4:38 ~ Big Shanty; vocals &
slide guitar, Scott T. Robertson; synth & drums, Rick Phillips; B3 organ, Chris
Blackwell; solo guitar
7. Rolling
Thunder** 4:22 ~ Big Shanty; vocals &
guitar, Scott T. Robertson; drums, Kevin Scott; bass
8. Can't
Hold Out* 5:35 ~ Big Shanty; vocals &
guitar, Scott T. Robertson; drums, Spencer Kirkpatrick; solo guitar, Dustin Sargent; bass
9. Tybee
Town* 3:31 ~ Big Shanty; vocals & acoustic
slide guitar, Col. Bruce Hampton; sitar, Kevin Scott; bass
10. Uncle
Sam Go To Rehab* 4:43 ~ Big Shanty; vocals &
guitar, Scott T. Robertson; drums, Liz Melendez; solo guitarClick Titles To Download:
Songwriters: *D.
Wooley, ** D. Wooley and S. Robertson
Produced by: Scott T. Robertson
Mastered by: Rodney Mills
Big Shanty uses;
Squire Stratocasters, Fender Stratocasters,
Danelectro U2, Guild D40, Rogue Resonators and D’Addario Strings. |
