The Buttshakers - Night Shift (2014)

THE BUTTSHAKERS FROM SOUTH OF FRANCE CAME BACK TO SNOWY HAMBURG TO RECORD THEIR SECOND ALBUM - CALLED "NIGHT SHIFT". GUIDED BY THE AWESOME AND YET WILD ENERGY OF CIARA THOMPSON - BEST KNOW FOR BEING A WHIRLWIND ON STAGE - THE BUTTSHAKERS STICK TO THEIR ROOTS OF DIRTY RHYTHM'N'BLUES AND NORTHERN SOUL. INFLUENCES LIKE SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE, CHARLES BRADLEY, SHARON JONES, ETTA JAMES, MARVIN GAYE ARE EMBRACED BY THE BAND, ALL WITH A NOD TO THE MOTOWN SOUND OF THE 60S. YOU'LL FIND KICK-ASS ROCK'N'ROLL SOUNDS IN SONGS LIKE "NIGHT SHIFT" OR "THE GIRL CAN'T DANCE" (THE ONLY COVER SONG AT THE ALBUM, ORIGINALLY FROM BUNKER HILL). "ONLY YOUR LOVE" - A WONDERFUL BALLAD SHOWS THE FANTASTIC VOCAL SKILLS BY THE ATTRACTIVE SINGER CIARA THOMPSON (SHE LEARNED THE SINGING IN A GOSPEL CHOIR IN US OF A WHERE SHE WAS BROUGHT UP). "SATSIFIED" AND "I WANNA KNOW" WILL SATISFY FANS OF SWEET VANDALS AND DETROIT COBRAS. IF YOU LIKE YOUR RHYTHM'N'BLUES AND SOUL IN A FRESH AND WILD WAY, WITHOUT FORGETTING THE RO