Press material says that Shakey Graves’ latest album, Can’t Wake Up, is home to “gnarly psychological hornswoggles and ecstatic resolution,” and if you’re confused, then the Texan Americana darling did his job. The 31-year-old ditched his boot-stomping brand of normy-folk music and traded it in for dusty rock and roll that’s a little off-time and totally different from the material most fans have to to love him for.
Illiterate Light opens the show at Jannus Live.
Shakey Graves w/Illiterate Light, Sat. May 4. Jannus Live, St. Petersburg. jannuslive.com.
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This article appears in May 2-9, 2019.
