With a sound that is raw, expressive, and strange, Lonesome Shack’s music is part hill country blues, part urban folk rock, and owes as much to Alan Wilson’s Canned Heat as it does to Junior Kimbrough.

Formed in Seattle, and currently based in London, the trio is led by Ben Todd, a finger picking guitarist who has spent time living in a shack in the New Mexico desert. Alone in the Gila Wilderness, Ben learned how to play old blues and banjo tunes from vintage and traditional recordings.

“Desert Dreams” is a singular and poetic album of modern American music written at the tail end of a long, challenging winter in London. The result sounds like rock city meets backwoods boogie, desert blues meets jungle grooves.

Lonesome Shack - Past The Ditch

White Lightning is the first track from Lonesome Shack's new album, CITY MAN, coming out October 2012 on Knick Knack Records.

The recording was done live at Seattle's Cafe Racer in April 2012.

Lonesome Shack is a three-piece drone/blues/boogie band from Seattle, WA. Check out lonesomeshack.com for tour dates.

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