Sold Out

Renegade blues-rocker Big Shanty's sonic rain of acid guitars and synth beats blasted across the Internet, Satellite and College radio in '07 with his anti-war song 'Killing Fields' and went number-one for five-weeks on 'Blues Critic' singles chart. Big Shanty's CD Ride With The Wind stayed top-ten in their album chart for five-months, his single was nominated as 'Best Blues Song and Shanty was nominated as 'Best New Artist'. Topping the list of amazing kudos for the year, 'Real Blues Magazine' selected the Big Shanty album as the '#1 Blues Album of 2007'. Big Shanty mixes Retro with Techno, Delta Blues and Club Beats to energize his taken-from-life stories, on Ride With The Wind Big Shanty delivered a brilliant collection of songs and media reviewers compared him to the White Stripes, Lonnie Brooks, Jimi Hendrix, Root Boy Slim and Neil Young. Big Shanty aspired to measure up to the high praise on his new album and invited some great friends like, legendary Godfather of Jam-Bands, Col. Bruce Hampton; The amazing blues guitar diva, Liz Melendez; Cutting edge guitarists, Spencer Kirkpatrick and Chris Blackwell; The driving basses of Dustin Sargent and Kevin Scott; The Roadhouse 88's of Rick Phillips and the unrivaled drums of Scott Robertson... these self-styled bohemians of rock'n blues gathered at Atlanta's STR studios in late 2008 and came out with a swarm of raw, rocking, high-octane Blues on the new album, 'Big Shanty Sold Out'. **************** PRESS REVIEWS ****************** Big Shanty 'Sold Out' review CRAWDADDY MAGAZINE by j. poet Big Shanty comes on like a rip snortin', fire breathin' son of a swamp dog with whiskey breath harsh enough to blister the chrome on a Harley and a black-and-blue attitude hard enough to make strong men weak and weak men quiver. He's got a guitar sound that's fuzzier than a bucket full of month-old bacon. He's a night walker, a trash talker, and a groove master with a grinding guitar sound that's both dangerous and thrilling. Born in the backwoods and raised on brimstone and moonshine, weaned on tractor exhaust and hard work, and seduced by the primal power of the blues at an early age, Shanty never wanted to be a star, but he did want to make some kind of gut-bucket, bone-rattling, tooth-busting, hell-raising noise. He grabbed a guitar, turned his amp up way past 11, and started wailing out tunes about desperate men, fearsome women, and a world gone mad. He spoke the truth, not giving a damn if anybody was listening, and found that he connected with something ferocious in the souls of his audience. He got discovered and soon found himself tearing up the floorboards of juke joints and blowing the roof off of blues clubs. He put out a couple of CDs and one of them, 2007's Ride With the Wind, which lifted a big middle finger to the powers that be, went viral thanks to the internet. Real Blues Magazine named it the #1 Blues Album of 2007, and internet blues stations around the world drank from his bracingly bitter cup. His thick, greasy sound turned heads and got people all shook up. They began wondering just who this Big Shanty character was. He may be the alter ego of legendary blues lover and promo man Dick Wooley, or maybe not. But one thing is certain: He's laying down some of the nastiest blues-rock you've heard in a long time. Things kick off with Big Shanty, From Lower Alabama to Hollywood, the story of our hero's journey from obscurity to the bright lights of LA. It's a mellow driving track with a tongue-in-cheek lyric, nice boogie woogie piano from Rick Phillips, and some slashing guitar from up-and-coming guitar goddess Liz Melendez. Shanty sings his own praises with a gruff grace and tongue firmly in cheek. Love Train is steaming and frenetic, a simple groove that let's Shanty show off his slide guitar work, while Kiss the Eight Ball is a funky rocker full of snarky sexuality with sassy backing vocals by Melendez that adds plenty to the decadent ambience. They Say It's Raining tells the usual sad story of a man left alone to wander the neon blasted sidewalks trying