The one-man-band man from Austin, Texas, Alejandro Rose-Garcia, better known by his stage name, Shakey Graves, has announced his forthcoming album Can’t Wake Up, due out May 4 through Dualtone Records. Sporting a bent Stetson hat and leather cowboy boots, keeping rhythm on a bass drum and tambourine at the edge of his heels, Rose-Garcia rattles the crowd with his, at times, dissonant chords from his classically folkloric six-string. His whiskey-burdened voice and charismatic stage presence made Rose-Garcia an emblem of indie-Americana music following his rise in 2011. While Rose-Garcia is known for playing solo, the artist enlisted the help of multi-instrumentalists Patrick O’Connor and Chris Boosahda to record and perform his 2014 album And the War Came, his first album with Dualtone Records. The album, produced by both Rose-Garcia and Boosahda, features three duets with ex-Paper Bird’s member Esme Patterson, including, of course, “Dearly Departed.”
