Photos & Recap | Shook Twins | Davenport & Chicago
By Team JamBase Oct 3, 2014 • 1:00 pm PDT
Shook Twins :: 10.01 & 10.02.14 :: Redstone Room & Tonic Room :: Davenport, IA & Chicago, IL
Portland, OR folk act Shook Twins visited the Midwest over the last two nights for performances in Davenport and Chicago. Wednesday night’s show was the first headlining date of The Shook Twins’ five-week national tour and the twins took the stage without the full band to encore with Tears For Fears’ “Mad World”, taking a good deal of influence from the Gary Jules version of the song. Opening act Under the Willow, a bluegrass/folk quartet from Chicago, started their tour to Harvest Fest with the show as well.
On Thursday night, the crowd at Tonic Room was hanging on every note, treating the tiny rock venue as a if it were a world-class listening room. The Shook Twins transitioned the title track of their second album, “Window”, into a crowd-pleasing rendition of the Grateful Dead’s “Scarlet Begonias.” The Twins also paid tribute to their sisters in arms, Elephant Revival, by serenading the Chicago crowd with the Colorado quintet’s “Birds and Stars.” Shook Twins invited their opener, Thea Roggenbuck (Althea Grace Band), to the stage for “Come Together.” One of Chicago’s rising gems, the teenage singer-songwriter carried the vocals for The Beatles tune.
The Shook Twins will be making stops at The Infamous Stringdusters’ The Festy Experience, Yonder Mountain String Band’s Harvest Fest and Railroad Earth’s Hangtown Halloween Ball before returning to their home in Portland at the end of the tour.
Watch Shook Twins perform “Window” > “Scarlet Begonias” at Boats and Bluegrass 2014 thanks to fan-shot footage from jokeruger:
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