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Look for the Sacred Shakers this summer!

Plough and Stars (MA) on July 16...Green River Festival (MA) on July 17...Center for the Arts (CT) on July 18...Snowbird Tent Revival (UT) on Aug 15


~Best of lists~
 Pop Matters
 No Depression's Top 30 of 2008

  WRSI's Top 93 of 2008(#28 Taggin' Along With Jesus)

 Radio free Americana

 WEMU's Roots Music Project
 Phonograph Blues
 
Folk & Roots (Melbourne) 

The Cowboy's Sweetheart (Byron Bay, Australia) 

1.14.09

Blurt Reviews the Shakers

12.10.08

Sing Out! calls the Sacred Shakers "too much fun" in a great review in the Autumn edition of the magazine.   

9.21.08

The Independent (UK) reviews the Sacred Shakers

9.8.08

The Shakers debut at #37 on the Americana Music Chart and #5 on the September edition of the Euro Americana Chart

8.22.08

The Sydney Morning Herald gives a thumbs up to the new record.

Country Standard Time: "The Shakers have featured an all-star cast of the leading lights of the Boston acoustic/roots scene."

8.15.08

"Their album is very, very good." -Mark Lamarr, BBC 2 

8.10.08

Musicratty says, "The Sacred Shakers is just plumb great swingin' countryfolk with a hint of alt-country, full of fiddle and banjo licks, country rock guitar, thumping stand-up bass and the distinctive clicketyclack of the honkytonk drumkit."

8.5.08

The Boston Globe and Boston Herald praise the Sacred Shakers 

7.25.08

Songs: Illinois compares The Sacred Shakers to early Sun Studio era