The Fat Angel Sings

Alejandro Rose-Garcia otherwise known as Shakey Graves took the stage for the E-Town series this last Saturday at his sold-out Show, it was hard to ignore the Americana artifices that the“Friday Night Lights” the actor had erected around himself.There was his stage name, Shakey Graves, meant to recall shambling bluesmen of the past, as did the fact that Graves played much of his set solo, with just his guitar and an old, beat-up guitar case for some percussion. He was a man out of time, or at least he very much wanted to be. But appearances aside, Graves proved that he had something new to offer the genre of jangly nu-folk.