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What's Shakin' - Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Hello from Houston. My webmaster, Steven Austin, at Enigma Media, has created a new look for this shakerussell.com web site. The navigation above will also get you to the Shake Russell MySpace webpage. Check it out and don’t forget to send a note in the Guestbook. Thanks, Steven!
Michael Hearne, Shake and Rusty Weir
Old friend and one of the original Cosmic Cowboys, Rusty Wier, has been diagnosed with liver cancer and is beginning chemotherapy immediately. Benefit shows are in the works all across Texas. Watch for one in your area. Donations to help Rusty can be made via Pay Pal. You don’t need a Pay Pal account in order to make a donation, just a credit or debit card. All proceeds will go to Rusty’s medical expenses. For more information, go to www.rustywier.com or www.myspace.com/rustywier.
Shake and Mike Hearne at the Big Barn Dance in Taos
Big Barn Dance News. We are back from the mountains of Taos, New Mexico. What beautiful weather we had for Michael Hearne’s 5th annual Big Barn Dance. Many turned out on September for the three days of music, dancing, songwriting workshops and country and western dance classes. Songwriters, musicians, guitar builders, music lovers, artists, old timers and first timers. There were plenty of pictures to be taken. Here's a photo with Buzz Casen, below.
Sunday night on the way back, we stopped in Santa Fe and played at The Real Deal House Concert Series hosted by Sarah and Vince Bell in their beautiful home. Many of you here in Texas know Vince’s name from his years in Texas at Anderson Fair and his early years at Sand Mountain and the Old Quarter.
Mike, Shake & Doug at The Real Deal House Concert
Vince Bell
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The Shake Russell Band DVD/CD combination,
“Live at Gruene Hall” was released in the end of November. It features the Trio with Doug Floyd
on Mandolin and vocals and Mike Roberts on acoustic Bass and vocals.
The following is a quote from Tracie at Gruene
Hall. “If you are a true Texas, Shake Russell’s music has touched your life in some way. And, if you aren’t aware of that already, it may have happened without your knowing it. Shake Russell’s songs have been recorded by the likes
of Clint Black, Ricky Skaggs, Waylon Jennings and many others. He has had a song go up into Space with the Astronauts (Deep in the West),
composed a theme song commemorating the Texas Sesquicentennial (Travelin’ Texas) and was commissioned by Texas State University to write the theme song of the San Marcos River (River of Innocence).”
Go to www.mytexasmusic.com and check out the full description from Lucky on this new DVD/CD. The DVD/CD was recorded and produced by Orris Brown, III, of Live From Texas Productions, a 3 camera shoot, he taped the afternoon and
evening shows. The music was recorded from the board, engineered by Doug and Brad Floyd. Darren Appelt also provided additional audio recordings of the afternoon. All together we have a “like you were there” documentation of a
Sunday at Gruene Hall. Additional interviews of
the band and stories of the songs are included
on the DVD. You may order online at My Texas Music, Lone Star Music, Waterloo Records in Austin, Cactus Records in Houston or pick up a copy at a show.
Mike Roberts, Shake and Doug Floyd
“A Tribute to the River” In October, I performed
the song, “River of Innocence” at the San Marcus Public Library as part of a panel of writers, (John Hohn, Jerry and Jim Kimmel), filmmaker
(Ron Coley) and even a former Aquamaid from Aquarena Springs, Shirley Rodgers, and Mayor Susan Narvaiz, serving as moderator. The program, “A Tribute to the River” was part of the annual “CommonExperience” a Texas State University initiative, which invited the guests and speakers and local residents to share stories
and ideas concerning the on-going preservation
of the San Marcos River. The song was written in 1983 for the documentary about the river. The documentary was written, filmed, directed and produced by Ron Coley, current head of the San Marcus River Foundation. To find out more about the preservation of the river and what you can
do to help, either through contribution or volunteer work, visit www.sanmarcosriver.org.
Also, to watch out for! Michael Hearne’s new CD, “High Road to Taos” is mixed, finished and
mastered and manufactured as we speak. You
can get it now - check his website for more info. Michael’s very best yet, was produced by Don Richmond. Watch for Michael when he is passing in your area. The CD features three of our co-written songs, “Red Willow Way”, “Ruby”, and “Today’s the Day”
Adios,
Shake...
P.S. We also have a brand new guestbook for all you fans to write in comments! Check it out here!
Happy Holidays everyone!!
January 22nd News!!
I have some good news. You can now go to My Texas Music and download any of the CD's that have been out of stock for $9.99. The bad news.............I'll have to relearn some of the songs I haven't played in a long time! THANK
YOU LUCKY AND JINELLE!
February 10th news!
My Texas Music has a downloadable 18 song collection of Shake's love songs, "Between Your Heart & Mine" Love Songs available for $9.99, just in time for Valentine's or any other special occasion. It is acoustical versions of songs that people haven't heard in a long time and also a couple that were never released.
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