Ladies and gentlemen! Is Colonel J.D. "the last great rock n' roll front man," as no smaller opinion-meister than Jello "Dead Kennedys" Biafra has opined? Ladies and gentlemen! Is this "the best damn band in America," as no less richly imbued a progeny than Hank Williams III has claimed? Ladies and gentlemen! In this turbulent world few things are certain, but we are inching ever closer toward certainty by announcing that this is music for both sects of blue hairs - the punk rock, Kool-Aid-dyed kids looking for their next great musical fix and the kindly old ladies down the street who have lived long enough to know what good music is. Ladies and gentlemen! Believe is a full-length release traveling directly from the seclusion of the Yep Roc Records warehouse to your soon-to-be-ecstatic ears. But this is not just any ordinary record; this is a triumph of Vaudevillian exuberance melding the rural, agri-dustrial rhythms of Appalachian hoedowns, the intensity of gutbucket blues, and even the madcap oompah of Polka. Ladies and gentlemen! It is with great pleasure that we introduce to you... The one... the only... Th' Legendary Shack*Shakers!
