The Shants at Plea For Peace Center, Stockton Jan 15

Oakland's Americana darlings The Shants are stopping by Stockton next Friday, at Plea For Peace Center. Please consider featuring this show!

We'll be selling copies of our new EP on High Scores & Records - Russian River Songs, which we recorded in a cabin in the redwoods by the Russian River, as you may guess. You can stream most of these songs on myspace.com/theshantsmusic, order the EP from us directly via PayPal, or download from High Scores & Records' digi-store!

Friday Jan 15
Plea For Peace Center
630 E Weber Ave, Stockton
w/ Boxes, Christina Antipa, Boy Scouts
all ages, $5

THE SHANTS
Oakland, California
http://theshants.tumblr.com
http://myspace.com/theshantsmusic
http://highscoresandrecords.com/hsds012.htm

Jan 10 - Rasputin Records in-store, Berkeley
Jan 14 - The Hemlock, SF
Jan 15 - Plea For Peace Center, Stockton
Jan 16 - Chief Crazy Horse Saloon, Nevada City
Jan 17 - Cafe Flo, Chico

REVIEWS:
"Rustic and subdued, like the scant, heavily muted light that finds its way to the floor of a redwood grove" - No Depression

"The Shants combine mellow grooves with a sexy twang. The vocals will give you a goofy grin. The same goofy grin you get after you.......well, you know. - SF Chronicle Music Blog, Off The Record

"Musically The Shants are the equivalent of dinner with friends rather than dining out. It isn't flashy and slick but it is almost infinitely more enjoyable. There is very little spectacle to their music, which instead will nest itself quite happily in your head for hours after a few spins, bringing with it a sense of earthy, warm familiarity." - The Wolf Magazine, UK

"The Shants recorded the Russian River Songs EP near the Russian River holed up in a cabin in the redwoods. The complete EP was mainly recorded live and in only two takes, what adds a nice campfire atmosphere to the tracks. And saying campfire atmosphere, it is just the right word to express all the other aspects of Russian River Songs. That is: the overall dark character of the music with the haunting but very mellow lap steel melodies, the cozy acoustic guitar play accompanied with chilled e-guitar vibes and cradling bass lines together with decent sounds from the rhythm section on drums – I don’t need to say that this is pushed to the limit every time the harmonica kicks in. The lyrics are perfect to forget about your surroundings and to hum or sing along with them with closed eyes thinking of a nice night with your friends hanging out around some crackling campfire with some tasty beers or beverages of your choice." - Common Folk Meadow

"The Shants & my iPod have been carrying on a torrid little dalliance for a few days now. Kind of languid, kind of sexy. The clear signature here is the aforementioned pedal steel, wielded craftily by Samuel Tokheim. Samuel plays with finesse, with wit, & with a poetic sense..." - Such A Clatter