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Just in time for Halloween, Legendary Shack Shakers premiere their spooky new video for "Sing a Worried Song" on Rolling Stone Country. The black and white video is a nod to Cab Calloway's "Minnie the Moocher," animated in the old Max Fleischer style by Zach Bellissimo (formerly of Rick & Morty), and featuring "Posey", a modernized, millennial Betty Boop, and the ghost of Legendary Shack Shakers' own Colonel JD.
"If ever a cartoon were to summarize the maniacal imagination of JD Wilkes and his Southern Gothic band the Legendary Shack Shakers, it would be a modern-day take on 'Minnie the Moocher'." - Jeff Gage, Rolling Stone Country
Bandleader Wilkes, who is also an illustrator, caught up with his mutal fan Bellissimo to discuss a great visual to represent "Sing a Worried Song". They began collaborating on the video with Wilkes coming up with the concept, early stage storyboards and certain characters which Bellissimo then brought to life with his warped sense of humor and eye for action. Animation, being such a labor intensive craft, is usually shared with a large team, but Bellissimo worked on it solo for months.
As an homage to the old days of black-and-white animation, early jazz and good ole Cab Calloway himself, the Legendary Shack Shakers proudly present their video for "Sing a Worried Song" off their new album After You've Gone out on Last Chance Records.
Complete with Betty Boop-era cartoon skeletons, live action pre-Moonwalk-inspired soft-shoe, and even a cameo from Squirrel Nut Zipper/Grammy Award-winning producer Jimbo Mathus, "Sing a Worried Song" imagines what might happen if we go whistling past the graveyard taking too many selfies!
The Legendary Shack Shakers are, JD Wilkes (vocals and piano), Fuller Condon (upright bass and vocals), Preston Corn (drums), Rod Hamdallah (guitar and vocals) and Gary Siperko (guitar).
