 For The Sacred Shakers, there's nothing finer than old-time, country and
blues-influenced gospel music. Think Hank Williams, The Carter Family,
The Stanley Brothers, Son House, and Mississippi Fred McDowell.
Beginning in 2005, that music drew a small but ever-widening circle of
some of Boston's finest musicians and vocalists together at the Country
Gospel Brunch concert series. In short order, The Boston Globe described
the group as "a local Who's Who of all-star roots musicians." On their eponymous debut, The Sacred
Shakers offer new life to the gospel genre by revisiting the stripped
down country and bluesy gospel material that inspires them. |