White Ghost Shivers

from:               Austin, TX
website:           www.whiteghostshivers.com
myspace:         www.myspace.com/whiteghostshivers

Chicken Ranch Records heard about my little project here, and they were nice enough to send me a copy of the most recent White Ghost Shivers album, Everyone's Got 'Em.  I popped it in the other morning to give it a listen while I was getting ready for work, and by the time I was thirty seconds into the opening title track, a huge smile was plastered across my face.  My sister's reaction was priceless too - the band's blend of jazz, hokum, vaudeville, ragtime, western swing and hillbilly isn't exactly what she normally hears blasting from my speakers before 8 a.m.

According to the band's "mission statement," "White Ghost Shivers have been peeling faces off the unexpecting for 6 years now."  The group's MySpace page lists a lineup including members named Curt Ass, Ma Poppit, Smokebreak Slemenda, Cella Blue, Shorty Borgasm, Deathmaster, Doyle, and The Preacher.   I would have typed out their massive list of individual instruments and entertaining skills (like chillin', chain smoking and skirt lifting), but perhaps you should just go read it yourself - everything written by or about the band just screams how much fun they're having.  They even host an annual Halloween Ball every year - which makes perfect sense when you listen to their album.  In fact, I think the only more appropriate usage of this band's music would be for the soundtrack of some of those ghost-filled old black and white cartoons I watched as a kid.

The whole point of this website is to help me (and you) discover new bands that you might not stop to see otherwise.  White Ghost Shivers is a band I never thought I would listen to (let alone enjoy!), but after checking them out, you can bet I'll be first in line to see what they bring to the stage in Austin.

"Everyone's Got 'Em" (from Everyone's Got 'Em)
"Weed Smoker's Dream" (from Everyone's Got 'Em)

Comments

[john]

interesting stuff. like what you've got going on here.