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The Shakers
12+ albums
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There are several groups by this name: 1) The Shakers are a punk band out of Margate, FL. 2) The Shakers were an acoustic trio that became a popular group in the underground music scene in Nashville, TN, in the late 1980s. According to the group’s my space page: Formed in 1986, The Shakers (Nashville) grew out of a desire to do a quickie side project based on the Tennessee legend of the Bell Witch. Oscar Rice and Robert Logue were members of rapidly rising Nashville rock group The Royal Court of China at the time, playing maximum volume shows in Nashville’s rock clubs. But after the two met vocalist Rebecca Stout in a small club (at one of the Georgia Satellites’ earliest Nashville shows), plans for the quieter Bell Witch project began to take shape. Debuting on Nashville’s club scene in the summer of 1986, the trio quickly gained a following and things began to grow beyond the original parameters of a Bell Witch project. By 1987 the Royal Court of China had signed with A&M Records, but the Shakers were also filling clubs and drawing media attention in town. In early 1988 with tensions flaring inside the Royal Court, Rice and Logue left the band and the deal to concentrate on the Shakers full-time. Later that year the original Bell Witch project finally came to fruition with the release on indie label Carlyle Records of “Living In the Shadow of a Spirit”, a four-song EP of songs dealing with the macabre legend. In 1990 Carlyle Records released the full-length acoustic
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