UNDER THE COVERS returns with The Shakin' Evil Hayride on Ilam Press Records!
Welcome back to our popular series which aims to explore and debunk the need for anyone to write a new song ever again! Part One documented the neoliberal scourge represented by The Beatles, who dethroned the ‘King of Rock and Roll’ with their endless litany of original — i.e. lucrative! — hits.
In this episode we take a journey into a genre of music that defied this trend wholeheartedly, and instead practically specialised in ‘covering’ the world with many and various different performers versions of existing hits and/or obscurities.
The Shakin’ Evil Hayride are an evolution, if we might use that term loosely, of an earlier attempt known as The Shakin’ Evil Limbo Party. As an entirely hopeless instrumental 3-piece, these guys were destined for obscurity. However a shared enthusiasm for BBQ chicken and gas-guzzling vehicles kept them showing up at the concrete box they like to call a ‘band room’, and after a few too many over-cooked birds lullaby-ed into oblivion by Buck Owens and his Buckaroos, our protagonists — now joined by a fourth, urgh, ‘member’ — started banging out shambolic attempts at (for arguments sake) Country and Western music.
Undeterred by an up-front lack of technical ability, these boys instead chose to dig into the electric momentum of raw enthusiasm. More back-water honky tonk than Grand Ole Opry. More Paycheck than Jones. More Opawa than Lyttelton.
Welcome back to our popular series which aims to explore and debunk the need for anyone to write a new song ever again! Part One documented the neoliberal scourge represented by The Beatles, who dethroned the ‘King of Rock and Roll’ with their endless litany of original — i.e. lucrative! — hits.
In this episode we take a journey into a genre of music that defied this trend wholeheartedly, and instead practically specialised in ‘covering’ the world with many and various different performers versions of existing hits and/or obscurities.
The Shakin’ Evil Hayride are an evolution, if we might use that term loosely, of an earlier attempt known as The Shakin’ Evil Limbo Party. As an entirely hopeless instrumental 3-piece, these guys were destined for obscurity. However a shared enthusiasm for BBQ chicken and gas-guzzling vehicles kept them showing up at the concrete box they like to call a ‘band room’, and after a few too many over-cooked birds lullaby-ed into oblivion by Buck Owens and his Buckaroos, our protagonists — now joined by a fourth, urgh, ‘member’ — started banging out shambolic attempts at (for arguments sake) Country and Western music.
Undeterred by an up-front lack of technical ability, these boys instead chose to dig into the electric momentum of raw enthusiasm. More back-water honky tonk than Grand Ole Opry. More Paycheck than Jones. More Opawa than Lyttelton.
'Truck Driving Man' originally by Terry Fell (1954).
'Six Days on The Road' originally by E. Green & C. Montgomery (1963).
Tracklist
A: Truck Drivin' Man
B: Six Days On The Road