SHAKEY GRAVES Vinyl & CDs

Review: Shakey Graves is proof that the digital age hasn't killed the romance in the rock & roll scene. Or at least he was a decade or so ago, when this struggling actor with musical abilities put out Roll The Bones, a 2011 album recorded on various living room floors and couches in and around Los Angeles. Not quite breaking the big leagues, nevertheless people began to hear about the collection, and soon enough the man in question was selling out music halls based on reputation alone. And The War Came is the product of what happens when a record label asks the outsider soloist to "do it like that, but bigger and in a full band setting." Thankfully, this paid off, and the second LP from the man in question is the marker of talent being allowed to truly blossom. Country, rock, indie, folk that resonates.