![]() Watch/Listen to “Early Morning Shakes” below. As mentioned before, we caught up with Gary Brown last week to talk about Early Morning Shakes. Kalf Fry tickets are available from Roadhouse Tickets and can be purchased here. Whiskey Myers is playing this Friday with Turnpike Troubadours, Dirty River Boys, Dalton Domino, and Hunter Hutchinson at this year’s Kalf Fry at the Lonestar Amphitheater. After speaking with Whiskey Myers bassist Gary Brown earlier last week, I get the impression that Cobb was exactly what the band not only wanted, but needed a figure who’d recognize their best qualities and help them preserve their absolute best in a damn near perfect album. Working with producer Dave Cobb had to have had a positive impact on the band. I’m sure there’s not an exact “lightbulb” moment–other than the general writing and creation process of Early Morning Shakes as a whole. I have no doubt they feel this is their best effort yet though. I’m not even sure if they would say they’re consciously approaching music differently they’re just better. Whiskey Myers probably has a little more pop sense than DBT, but storytelling is all over Early Morning Shakes. ![]() Folks seem to think first of storytelling when it comes to DBT, which is very understandable. But, it’s not as though DBT don’t know how to play guitars or give a rebel yell. There’s obviously still a love and passion for southern rock music flowing through the Whiskey Myers sound. In more ways than one, it feels as though Whiskey Myers has gone from straight Lynyrd Skynryd disciples to another band with southern roots: The Drive-By Truckers. It has more to do with them hitting their stride artistically–the beginning of their prime years. ![]() ![]() It’s not due to a lack of effort in the past. It’s not that WM hasn’t been trying to make great all-around albums in the past though. It’s “Colloquy” that makes the record complete (Secretly, the best song they’ve ever written and recorded). It’s the songs that you may never even hear played live that make this record an instant classic. You knew they had an “Early Morning Shakes,” a “Dogwood,” and a “Headstone” in them. We already knew they had those four or five songs you’d hear on the radio or on a venue pre-show playlist. But that’s really not even where they shine most. You’re seeing a band mature before your eyes–even when they’re singing about those early morning shakes, Jack Daniels in coffee, and bad habits they just can’t seem to break. Yeah, their previous albums have been solid, but Early Morning Shakes, it’s on another level–not just setting a new standard for Whiskey Myers, but really, for an entire branch of the American Music tree. Their latest album, Early Morning Shakes, is really a godsend for all intents and purposes. They’re just as much historians and scholars as they are guitar axemen, storytellers, and performers. But it’s not in that “we’re making rock n’roll with a southern grit and we should probably name drop a few of these bands to give us some street cred” kind of way. They wear those influences on their sleeve. It’s obvious that they have a certain affection to the greats of 1970s. Whiskey Myers luckily figured that part early on. Sure, those dual guitars, gravely voices, and Jack Daniels bottles littering the stage are part of what make southern rock a distinctive sound. Anyone who’s ever really listened and studied the discographies of Lynyrd Skynryd, The Allman Brothers Band, Little Feat, and others know though, that’s simply the case. This is what real southern rock sounds like.įor whatever reason, there’s always been a misconception that southern rock is more about attitude, guitars, and good times than lyrical substance. This is what windows down on the highway sound like. This is what country roads actually sound like. If you wish, we will also remove from our Songs For Sale catalog this song and any other songs for which you hold the copyright. We will be happy to pay you industry-standard print royalties, retroactively to our first resale if any of this sheet music. If so, please contact us and let us know. We make a good-faith effort to identify copyright holders and pay appropriate print royalties for sheet music sales, but it’s possible that for this song we have not identified and paid you fair royalties. IF YOU ARE THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER: you are entitled to print royalties from all resales of this sheet music. Note that you are NOT the copyright holder if you performed this song, or if you arranged a song that’s already copyrighted. Tunescribers is committed to paying fair print royalties for all sheet music that we resell through our Songs For Sale service.ĪRE YOU THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER? You hold the copyright to this song if (a) you composed it and retained ownership of copyright, or (b) it’s in the public domain, you arranged it and retained ownership of copyright, or (c) you acquired the copyright from a previous owner.
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