LONESOME SHACK ANNOUNCE NEW "MORE PRIMITIVE" ALBUM MAY 20TH! PREMIERE NEW VIDEO!

More Primitive finds Seattle’s Lonesome Shack exploring the depths of boogie and country blues. The trio’s sound is raw and immediate with finger-picked guitar lines, soulful crooning and big danceable grooves. Ben Todd’s introspective lyrics take the American blues tradition to a new level, examining personal history, loss of friends and a burning desire to get to the primitive core of life.

The band began in New Mexico’s Gila Wilderness where Ben Todd hunkered down in the shack he built and studied the music of the American folk and blues lineage. In 2008 Todd joined up with drummer Kristian Garrard in Seattle, and in 2011 bassist Luke Bergmanbecame the third member.

Lonesome Shack's More Primitive will be available on CD, digital formats and limited edition vinyl on May 20th through Alive Naturalsound Records.

 

CLICK THE IMAGE BELOW TO WATCH THE PREMIERE OF LONESOME SHACK'S NEW VIDEO "WRECKS" VIA THE BIG TAKEOVER

MORE PRIMITIVE TRACK LISTING:

01 Wrecks
02 Head Holes
03 Old Dream
04 More Primitive
05 Die Alone
06 Medicine
07 Chompin At The Noose
08 Trying To Forget
09 Big Ditch
10 Evil

 

LONESOME SHACK'S BEN TODD (photo: Andrew Swanson)

 

HERE'S WHAT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SAYING ABOUT LONESOME SHACK:

 

“Tired of the Black Keys’ gritty-but-then-cleaned-up-for-the-arena blues chug? Then you are in luck.  Lonesome Shack haven’t left that grittiness behind” - The Stranger

"A treasure trove of mind-blowing grooves that go somewhere beyond the traditional.” -  Relix/Jambands

"Straight up gritty blues that sounds just like the classics.  It could be Robert Johnson’s devil owned hands petting the guitar, or Leadbelly’s voice blowing out an ancient microphone.” - Secretly Important

"…old school blues with a rocky edge that can calm your fears and give you goosebumps in the same breath." - Dingus

"Scruff Blues band out of Seattle that keeps it real and unpretentious" - Cincinnati City Beat 

"Lonesome Shack’s back-porch blues sounds just about as authentic as it comes…they have devoted themselves to the study of true roots." - Seattle Weekly

"Lonesome Shack is faithful to their name: aesthetically distant, unpretentious and full of lyrics of restless isolation…poetically devoted to that fading Americana sound." - Arkansas Times

FOR MORE INFO ON LONESOME SHACK:
http://lonesomeshack.com