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The Sacred Shakers [Digipak] - CD

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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 including rising star Eilen Jewell". 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. On The Sacred Shakers, respect is paid to the old tunes

but don't look for a strict interpretation on this 14-track disc of mostly traditional gems plus a few gospel classics from Hank Williams and George Jones.

Letters From Sinners & Strangers.

Of Jewell's original songs and selection of covers, The Washington Post praised "her knack for giving older

songs a traditional feel with modern flair." And like that debut, The Sacred Shakers is a wonderful distillation of classic folk, country and blues

styles delivered by an unforgettable chorus of voices.