''AgriDustrial '' is the seventh studio album by American rock band
Legendary Shack Shakers
The Legendary Shack Shakers (originally Those or Th' ) are an American rock band from Murray, Kentucky that was formed in 1995 by J.D. Wilkes. The original line-up formed the band out of a shared interest in rockabilly, blues and Western swi ...
. Released on April 13, 2010,
the album was the only release by the band to feature guitarist
Duane Denison
Duane Denison (born January 21, 1959) is an American guitarist best known for work with the avant-garde rock band The Jesus Lizard. He is also a founding member of super-group Tomahawk.
Biography
Denison began his musical career by studying c ...
as part of the band's line-up.
Composition
In 2008
Duane Denison
Duane Denison (born January 21, 1959) is an American guitarist best known for work with the avant-garde rock band The Jesus Lizard. He is also a founding member of super-group Tomahawk.
Biography
Denison began his musical career by studying c ...
joined the Legendary Shack Shakers, and the band shifted their sound, with Wilkes calling this new sound "agridustrial", explaining that it is "kind of chunky industrial patterns, but give it kind of a rustic feel
..like the sounds of farm implements, that clanking cacophony of rural industry. Kind of like how
Johnny Cash used a train rhythm."
Chad Radford of ''
Creative Loafing
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'' described ''Agri-Dustrial'' as "an album that mashes the rhythmic industrial plod of farmland industry with wide-eyed
rock and roll
Rock and roll (often written as rock & roll, rock 'n' roll, or rock 'n roll) is a genre of popular music that evolved in the United States during the late 1940s and early 1950s. It originated from African-American music such as jazz, rhythm a ...
".
[ According to ''Paste'' magazine, the album incorporates "anvils, hammers and other soul-crushing apparatuses" into its musical composition.][
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Reception
Chad Radford of ''Creative Loafing
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'' said that "distorted percussion and layers of ambient noise
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Background n ...
..make ''Agri Dustrial'' a masterpiece of experimental music."
Track listing
# "Melungeon Melody" – 0:34
# "Sin Eater" – 3:13
# "Sugar Baby" – 1:57
# "Nightride (The Ballad of the Black Patch Riders)" – 2:36
# "Dixie Iron Fist" – 2:31
# "Two Tickets to Hell" – 2:57
# "God Fearing People" – 2:56
# "Greasy Creek" – 2:03
# "Hammer and Tongs" – 4:04
# "Hog-Eyed Man" – 1:54
# "Dump Road Yodel" – 2:11
# "Hoboes Are My Heroes" – 3:18
# "Everything I Ever Wanted to Do..." – 2:43
# "The Hills of Hell" – 1:42
# "The Lost Cause" – 2:34
# "Killswitch" – 0:42
Personnel
* Colonel J.D. Wilkes – vocals, harmonica, banjo, piano, organ, Jew's harp
* Mark Robertson – slap and bowed upright bass, electric bass, guitar, background vocals
* Duane Denison
Duane Denison (born January 21, 1959) is an American guitarist best known for work with the avant-garde rock band The Jesus Lizard. He is also a founding member of super-group Tomahawk.
Biography
Denison began his musical career by studying c ...
– guitar, "prepared" guitar
* Brett Whitacre – drums and percussion
* Layne Hendrickson;- percussion
References
2010 albums
Legendary Shack Shakers albums
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