The Todalo Shakers (from Seattle, Berkeley and Mendocino) will bring their vintage jug band party blues to the Devil Mountain Coffee House. They are celebrating both their 20th anniversary and the launch of their album, Rock Away My Blues, which features lots of harmony vocal arrangements, hot ragtime tunes on fiddle and mandolin, plus virtuoso bass slap solos. Close your eyes and you might be in Memphis in 1928! The exuberance and fondness that these accomplished musicians feel for their material and each other are unmistakable; the Todalo Shakers bring the party with them wherever they go!
What exactly is a "Todalo" (pronounced "TOE-dah-low")? It's closely related to "diddy-wah-diddy" and crops up occasionally in obscure old blues songs. "I'm satisfied, satisfied, my todalo shaker by my side" is a line from the Memphis Jug Band classic You May Leave, But This Will Bring You Back. References to "todalo" turn up in songs by Mississippians John Hurt, Eubie Blake and Bessie Smith.
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What exactly is a "Todalo" (pronounced "TOE-dah-low")? It's closely related to "diddy-wah-diddy" and crops up occasionally in obscure old blues songs. "I'm satisfied, satisfied, my todalo shaker by my side" is a line from the Memphis Jug Band classic You May Leave, But This Will Bring You Back. References to "todalo" turn up in songs by Mississippians John Hurt, Eubie Blake and Bessie Smith.
The Todalo Shakers (from Seattle, Berkeley and Mendocino) will bring their vintage jug band party blues to the Devil Mountain Coffee House. They are celebrating both their 20th anniversary and the launch of their album, Rock Away My Blues, which features lots of harmony vocal arrangements, hot ragtime tunes on fiddle and mandolin, plus virtuoso bass slap solos. Close your eyes and you might be in Memphis in 1928! The exuberance and fondness that these accomplished musicians feel for their material and each other are unmistakable; the Todalo Shakers bring the party with them wherever they go!
What exactly is a "Todalo" (pronounced "TOE-dah-low")? It's closely related to "diddy-wah-diddy" and crops up occasionally in obscure old blues songs. "I'm satisfied, satisfied, my todalo shaker by my side" is a line from the Memphis Jug Band classic You May Leave, But This Will Bring You Back. References to "todalo" turn up in songs by Mississippians John Hurt, Eubie Blake and Bessie Smith.
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What exactly is a "Todalo" (pronounced "TOE-dah-low")? It's closely related to "diddy-wah-diddy" and crops up occasionally in obscure old blues songs. "I'm satisfied, satisfied, my todalo shaker by my side" is a line from the Memphis Jug Band classic You May Leave, But This Will Bring You Back. References to "todalo" turn up in songs by Mississippians John Hurt, Eubie Blake and Bessie Smith.
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