Miss Shevaughn & Yuma Wray are a duo who multi-task on guitars, kick drum, banjo, mandolin, lap steel and harmonica. Their influences include Motown, 60s AM radio country and western movies. In February they packed up and left Chicago to live on the road in their Honda Element for all of 2011, playing about 20 shows a month all over the country.
Their new EP is called Snake Oil Songs, and is available on iTunes.
So far so good.
However, what this doesn’t tell you is just how damn good that EP is…from the twangy, irrepressible, under-your-skin guitar lick of Baby Blue to the low-key mournful country of Fadin’ On You, each of the five songs on this record stands out in one way or another. Highly recommended – if you can catch them on their countrywide tour in 2011, we reckon it’ll be a treat.
Visit their website here for more songs and tour dates
Download Miss Shevaughn & Yuma Wray – Baby Blue mp3 (from Snake Oil Songs EP)
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