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White Ghost Shivers is an eclectic American

United States

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Band (music)

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based in Austin, Texas

Austin, Texas

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which claims cabaret

Cabaret

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, jazz

Jazz

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, vaudeville

Vaudeville

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, hokum

Hokum

Hokum is a particular song type of American blues music - a humorous song which uses extended analogies or euphemistic terms to make sexual innuendos...

, western swing

Western swing

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, hillbilly, jugband and ragtime

Ragtime

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as its inspiration. The band has been declared "Best None of the Above" by the Austin Music Awards for 2005 and 2007.

Band members

Shorty Stump: vocals, tenor banjo, ukuleles, guitar, mandolin, kazoo, nose flute, tuba, jug
Cella Blue: vocals, skirt-lifting, slide whistle, various sound effects, mover and shaker
Smokebreak Slemenda/Detective Stain: vocals, lead guitar
Hot Thomas/Sleepytime T: vocals, violin, tenor banjo
Poppiticus/Ma poppitt: string bass, background vocals
Ten-Penny Brown/Saturn: clarinet, tenor saxophone, jug
Reese's Pieces/Baby-Faced Finster: stride piano, saw, uke

Discography

Hokum If You Gottem (2003; Chicken Ranch Records)

White Ghost Shivers Ball (3:17)
Tell It to Me (2:56)
Too Damn Old (2:19)
Delores (4:07)
Down and Out Rag (2:31)
This Ol' Life (3:14)
Siberian Cakewalk (4:00)
Outhouse Blues (4:06)
Ignacio (4:13)
My Gal (3:26)
Who Walks In (3:18)
Eliza May (5:12)
One Eyed Sam (4:04)
Sweet the Monkey (4:18)
Big Horn Blues (7:44)
Shouldn't Do That (Bonus Track on 2005 Reissue; 3:01)
Shopping Mall (Bonus Track on 2005 Reissue; 2:27)
- Live on the Radio (2005)
- Everyone's Got 'Em (2006)
Everyone's Got' em
Mama said
Little Kisses
Weed Smokers Dream
Slaughter the Hog
The Ghost Song
Chinatown
My Land
Strictly Ornamental
Shivers' Stomp
Oh! Malloy
Toot Yer Whistle, Blow My Horn
Pipe Dreams
Made for Two

External links

White Ghost Shivers official site
http://www.facebook.com/whiteghostshivers
Review of Everyone's Got 'Em at WhatzUp Magazine

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