Sarah Shook & The Disarmers

Sidelong

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"Honest to a fault and foul mouthed as a drunken sailor, she's a nonconforming spitfire who's proud of not fitting in with mainstream country music" - Rolling Stone.

North Carolina's Sarah Shook sings with a conviction and hard honesty sorely missing in much of today's Americana landscape. Rowdy punk rock insolence to the right, a bottle in a bag; organic three chords and the truth frankness to the left. Always passionate, at times profane, Sarah stalks/walks the line between vulnerable and menacing, her voice strong and uneasy, country classic but with contemporary, earthy tension. At times it's as simple and muscular as Luther Perkins' boom-chicka-boom or as downtown as Johnny Thunders. Sidelong is a record that will make you sit up and notice.
This is a new voice for a new country. 

STAFF COMMENTS

Barry says: It's following hot on the heels of a lot of Americana this one, which makes it all the more easy to forget key players. It should be a testament to the quality and appeal of Shook & The Disarmers that these really stick in my mind. Gritty and tough, but still imbued with a solid thread of melodicism and southern charm that's hard to ignore.

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