Name: Who-Do-You-Voodoo.mp3 by Shake Rag
Duration: 4 min
Description: This track takes you to the swamps of New Orleans. Good old swamp rock

Let my baby ride by R L Burnside provides the hook and the lyrical refrain. The tale that Shake Rag have to tell though is of that obsession that drives you into the arms of the medical profession, the shelter of the local tabernacle, or an endless pacing of the streets at night. It was the red dress… the half smile from the girl on the Tram Train. Just like her, you get this tune in your head and you will never get over it.

Tram Train - Written and Performed by Shake Rag

The past, present and future collide, for the anti-hero of this song with his longing for a past, present and future that isn’t there, for that special one who might have been… Just ask the Monks in the hills of Kathmandu… Just ask the gypsy…. Just keep checking the rear-view mirror… With it’s ripping hook of a chorus it’s like deja-vu all over again.

The Dreamer - Written and Performed by Shake Rag (2022)

Not rockabilly, not psychobilly, not hillbilly, this song is Uncle Billy. Not Dirty Uncle Bertie, but definitely a bit fruity. Rock ‘n’ roll with a hill country blues groove. It’ll make you blow your rig.

Uncle Billy - Written and Performed by Shake Rag (2022)

This track takes you to the swamps of New Orleans. Good old swamp rock

Who-Do-You-Voodoo.mp3

Shake Rag

In Manchester the word is out, Charles Moray is promoting a punk blues band that are well worth a listen and a watch. Moray, an eccentric gent from Louisiana, has been causing mischief in the North West of England for two decades, putting together and promoting a number of barnstorming acts… of which Shake Rag are the latest. 

Outside the Band on the Wall in Manchester’s famous Northern Quarter it is rumoured he will be here imminently… But instead a taxi pulls up and out tumble Shake Rag – all four of them. Richard J Moses on vocals and occasional guitar, Gazza Parvin on first guitar, Heath Evdemon on Bass and Phil Chapman on drums.  

Moray pulled them together in early 2021 with the clear and true intention of putting punk blues back into the clubs and pubs. Shake Rag have an original songbook and occasional cover tune, both drawing on the best of Blues, Rockabilly, 60’s Garage, punk. 

Shake Rag started gigging in Autumn 2021 and within weeks were having to turn stuff down. In 2022 their This Location Got No Station Tour sees them playing dates across the UK. 

The name Shake Rag is borrowed from a district of Tupelo, home to the blues, birthplace of Elvis, through which a railroad was built but not a station. If you wanted to stop the train you had to shake your rag. Shake Your Rag is also the name of just one of Shake Rag's own incendiary ditties. 

I guess you know you’re in the wrong part of town when the railroad goes through it but there’s no station. But if you think you’ve missed the last train to Clarksdale… You might be wrong. 

As the band observe in that tune with which they usually close their shows…. “Get back to the railway track and shake your rag.”

The band are tuning up when word comes in, Charles Moray has been called away on urgent business. Just what that might be nobody knows. 



Who-Do-You-Voodoo.mp3

Shake Rag

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