The Blind Shake “Live at Third Man Records” 2017. 7″ single, Third Man Records. This past weekend we headed to Nashville and of course hit Third Man (and dropped a large chunk of cash), picking up this single among many other records, t-shirts and other assorted swag. Sometimes we have amazingly awesome luck: we popped back in a second time and our friend, a Nashville resident and the drummer/vocalist for Volk, happened to be working (we didn’t know she worked there). The store was pretty slow and none of the execs were in so she gave us a private tour of the back area at Third Man which includes Jack White’s office (he wasn’t there), a super-swanky lounge area that doubles the green room for bands when there are performances, the warehouse where all Third Man merchandise is stored and shipped from, plus the famous Blue Room where bands perform and record their “Live at Third Man” releases. Absolutely no photos are allowed, ever, in the lounge and office area but photos are allowed in the Blue Room and the other areas. As you can see, it really is quite blue:

Third Man Blue Room stage

Third Man Blue Room recording booth

Joe, Eleot and Jake in the Blue Room

Eleot and me in the Blue Room

The Blind Shake are an awesome noisy garage punk band from Minneapolis that we’ve seen a few times, though not recently (pandemic and I’m pretty sure one of the Blaha brothers that form the nucleus of the group moved to another state). The two tracks on their 7″ are “I Shot All the Birds” (a darkly sinister noise rocker) from their 2016 album Celebrate Your Worth and “Tar Paper” (messy, noisy, growling and tribal with tons of distortion) from the 2015 LP Fly Right.