Turnstyled Junkpiled

Many thanks to Turnstyled Junkpiled for the kind words about our album. You can read the full review here!

“Carrie Shepard’s torch singer voice is absolutely enchanting, and the rest of the Charmers create a brilliant Country-Jazz fusion that evokes another time and place where the men wear dark suits and femme fatales pack more heat than a loaded gun. The overall effect of The Whiskey Charmers is, well, intoxicating.” – Turnstyled Junkpiled 5/6/15

Three Chords and the Truth UK

Many thanks to Three Chords and the Truth UK for the wonderful review of our album! Read the full article here

“The duo of Carrie Shepard and Lawrence Daversa guide the band’s direction which leaves a trail of impurity free groove in its wake. Catch yourself in the headlights of their enticing tunes and total absorption is impossible to avoid. Whether it’s the glorious sultry vocals of Carrie snaking around the hazy songs that ache with magnetic appeal, or Lawrence’s driving lead guitar decorating each track, this album runs on a full tank throughout its 38 minute journey”.- Three Chords and The Truth UK 5/6/15

Americana Roots UK

Many thanks to Americana Roots UK for the kind words about our album!

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This is a tremendous debut album by a Detroit, Michigan based trio who bring a new slant to the normal clichéd view of the music that comes from that area, with nine tremendous songs of what is becoming known as ‘country gothic.’ The drumming is far more than just a foundation on this sparse haunting album of great beauty with the gorgeous guitar sounds of Lawrence Daversa and the stunning beauty of Carrie Shepard’s vocals on these mainly Shepard penned songs of loss, despair and tragedy. To use an oversimplification, if you like the Cowboy Junkies and Rachel Brooke, there is every likelihood you will love this gorgeous album.
Full Review Here

 

 

Pure M Magazine Review: All the Fun, No Hangover: The Whiskey Charmers

Many thanks to Jonathan Monahan from Pure M Magazine, Ireland’s Music, Art and Culture Magazine for the great review of our album! You can read the full article on their website here!

I’ve heard all sorts of what could be called ‘weirdness of influence’ on this album. There are glimpses of Fleetwood Mac, Jefferson Airplane, and even a bit of Nancy Sinatra in Sidewinder, as well as the easier to link country influences few of our readers will ever have heard – and that’s just the vocal. Carrie Shepard has a voice you’d leave your wife and eleven children for in a heartbeat. The tone of it is like a short of Jack Daniels drunk slowly and neat: warm the whole way down, before it shoots back up your spine to the pleasure centre of your brain, followed by a dark, liquid caramel chaser. She had me from the first note of Elevator to the last bar of Waltz. I’d drop everything and book a flight to Michigan just to become a full-time stalker if I knew it included a dental plan.

The guitar is at its haunting best in Vampire, an account of a sordid night with a deathly white stranger and the creeping hypnosis that gets you caught up in that sort of thing. Lawrence Daversa plays the blues along every nerve of your body, plucking, sliding, and vibrato-ing to a tingling climax – before you ask, yes, it feels odd to say that about another man, but the music is just inescapably sexy when combined with Carrie’s sultry voice. It takes two to tango, and this proves that, just maybe, that platitude can stretch across more than just dance and euphemism. – Jonathan Monahan, Puremzine – March 8th, 2015

The Whiskey Charmers on Debts No Honest Man Can Pay

Many thanks to Debts No Honest Man Can Pay for including us on this weeks program! Tune in tomorrow from noon to 2pm to hear the new record by Steve Earle & The Dukes as well as our debut self-titled album, The Whiskey Charmers!

Saturday @ noon on Plaza Midwood Community Radio.
Listen online @ www.pmcradio.org.
On your mobile device with the TuneIn app.

Our album is available at thewhiskeycharmers.bandcamp.com and will be available on iTunes shortly.

The Whiskey Charmers on Bandcamp!

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Our debut album is now out on Bandcamp! You can find us at thewhiskeycharmers.bandcamp.com. The album will also be available next week on CD Baby and iTunes. We hope you can join us at our album release party at The Loving Touch in Ferndale, MI on March 7th. Joining us on the bill are our good friends The Blueflowers and Nina and the Buffalo Riders. Music starts at 10pm!Many thanks again to all of our Kickstarter supporters for helping us put out our first record.

The Whiskey Charmers Album Release!

Very excited to announce our album release on March 7th at The Loving Touch in Ferndale. We will be joined on the bill by our friends The Blueflowers and Nina and the Buffalo Riders. Music starts at 9pm! Stay tuned for more details.

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Metrotimes article: Acoustic country trio the Whiskey Charmers play by their own rules

Many thanks to music journalist Brian Palmer and Metrotimes for yesterdays article on our band, titled “Acoustic country trio the Whiskey Charmers play by their own rules, no censorship allowed”

“The Whiskey Charmers just might have the most appropriate name ever. For starters, the band plays a brand of country, folk, and Americana that’s perfectly suited to dimly lit whiskey bars, where a few shots of fire will help get you in the right frame of mind. And the trio will charm the pants off you with their moody aesthetics and clever wordplay. Two big reasons this band — which formed last year — is starting to gain some traction is that they march to the beat of their own creative drum, and they don’t pull any punches.”

– Brian Palmer, Metrotimes 11/12/14

Click here for the full article

Pig and Whiskey Q&A!

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In the run up to Pig and Whiskey 2014, Metro Times asked us a few questions about whiskey, music and BBQ. We posted our answers below! Read the full article to see what other the bands have to say!

Lawrence Daversa and Carrie Shepard (the Whiskey Charmers)

What was the first time you drank whiskey like?

Daversa: It was like having vertigo and the flu simultaneously.

Shepard: It was like drinking warm, mellow happiness.

Do you remember the last time you drank whiskey?

Daversa: Yes, it tasted like gasoline.

Shepard: Yes, it was at Third Street Bar (and Dangerously Delicious Pies) the night Doop & the Inside Outlaws played. It was a Jameson’s, neat.

What’s your favorite barbecue joint?

Daversa: Edley’s in Nashville.

Shepard: The Honky Tonk BBQ in Chicago, also one of our favorite places to play.

What’s your favorite whiskey?

Daversa: The one that is farthest away from me.

Shepard: Bushmills.

In your opinion, how do music, whiskey, and barbecue go together?

Daversa: We like to play for people that have eaten a large amount of barbecue and had a lot of whiskey, because that makes us sound better.

Shepard: Well, if you drink some whiskey, have a tasty slab of ribs, listen to music, then have some barbecue brisket and some more whiskey, you can’t really go wrong.

The New Way!

Looking forward to playing this Saturday at The New Way Bar in Ferndale. Hope to see you! Set times and address below.

Mike Galbraith 9:00 – 9:30
The Potter’s Field 9:45 – 10:30
Behind The Times 10:45 – 11:30
The Whiskey Charmers 11:45 – 12:30

New Way Bar
23130 Woodward Avenue
Ferndale, Michigan 48220
(248) 541-9870

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