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The sort of young, dumb and full of cum world-view of 'it's you vs me, fuck this man!' which I think is hilarious and kind of universal, everybody feels like that at some point, but this record is a reflection of me being older and my problems aren’t those problems any more.
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I've always talked about death and spooky imagery because I'm fascinated with esoteric things, the mysteries of life, but I've always tried to pair that with a bit of young stupid humour. I'm not a very sad person and my woes at the time were kind of me worrying am I living my life the way I should be, and girls, and young man stuff, and there was a certain playfulness I wanted to have in that. “What I was writing about in the past were my own personal woes. Just like the characters in the Sin City Hollywood sequel he appeared in in 2014, he spies a starker vista. The older and wiser Rose-Garcia is no longer the innocent carefree man-child sat on a suitcase playing the part of the welcome wagon. It is easy to see the constant ebb and flow of development within Shakey Graves’ music, and his latest release ‘Can’t Wake Up’ is no different in this regard. I try to give back a little bit and raise some awareness about some things, but also challenge myself to put some new music out, it's fun.” I'll put my music up pay-what-you-want online, I'll release something, a b-side compilation or I'll drop a record and I give half the profits from everything to charity.
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“Every year since I've thrown a show on that day. However, where some people may let such things go to their heads, Rose-Garcia used the accolade to challenge himself to be worthy of it. That was the first time I'd played that thing in front of people and it worked, so I started coming up with new ways to take that around and mic it up and it just kept evolving from there.”Īnd evolve it did, so much so that Austin, Texas declared February 9 th 2012 “Shakey Graves Day”, an honour which saw Rose-Garcia’s music archived in City Hall. That was its first test run, there's photo of me sitting on it wearing a little hat. I think it was like 200 bucks a night and so I used that money to get one of my friends to make me a first version of the suitcase drum. “They were touring around the US in a train and I got asked be the official busker of the tour because they wanted to give a hobo feel to the show - they had somebody playing at the front gate when you came in.
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Now for the small matter of funding the suitcase, and as luck would have it, Shakey Graves was about to get booked to provide hobo vibes for alternative country heavy-hitters including Mumford and Sons. So, I started conceptualising this suitcase that I could pack everything into, so I could just walk around with a guitar and that and make as much noise as I could.” It changed the way I played some of the songs and proved to me that it could be done, but the problem was that I didn't really have a car or any way to transport a drum kit. So, I asked the drummer if I could use his kick drum and sort of just went for it and people started dancing. “One night the act before me was a five-piece band and everybody was really in the mood to dance, and I knew that if I went up there and played an acoustic guitar it would just get lost. Matters came to a head one night in LA, where Rose-Garcia had a residency in Tommy’s Loft, a speakeasy in the garment district. I had seen some people do one-man band set-ups and it had crossed my mind that I could pull something like that off.” “Originally, I had seen someone use a suitcase in the subways of New York - it was a smaller briefcase and they just had a kick pedal, but it got me thinking about the problem I had which was basically just not being able to find a drummer and not making enough money at a show to pay somebody else to do it, let alone try and teach somebody these songs that I was only figuring out anyway. This is no more evident than in the Austin native’s solution to not being able to afford to pay other musicians early on in his career becoming a one-man band with a single suitcase providing the answer to the majority of his problems. The hallmarks of that show’s never say die catchphrase "clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose," are written all over Rose-Garcia’s career. It's one which has seen him star in several Robert Rodriguez movies, including the upcoming Red 11, to being the official busker on Mumford and Sons’ Railroad Revival Tour, to appearing in seminal teen drama Friday Night Lights. Shakey Graves AKA Alejandro Rose-Garcia is a musician and actor hailing from Texas, who has been beguiled by both stage and screen over the course of his unusual career.