Shaker is the second and final album David Johansen

David Johansen

David Roger Johansen is an American rock, protopunk, blues, and pop singer, as well as a songwriter and actor. He is best known as a member of the seminal protopunk band The New York Dolls and also achieved commercial success under the pseudonym Buster Poindexter.-Early life:Johansen was born in...

 recorded with the Harry Smiths. The album was released in 2002 by Chesky Records and continues highlighting the folk style music from the first album. Additionally, the album brings in blues

Blues

Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...

 music with songs from Son House

Son House

Eddie James "Son" House, Jr. was an American blues singer and guitarist. House pioneered an innovative style featuring strong, repetitive rhythms, often played with the aid of slide guitar, and his singing often incorporated elements of southern gospel and spiritual music...

, Muddy Waters

Muddy Waters

McKinley Morganfield , known as Muddy Waters, was an American blues musician, generally considered the "father of modern Chicago blues"...

, and Charlie Patton

Charlie Patton

Charlie Patton , better known as Charley Patton, was an American Delta blues musician. He is considered by many to be the "Father of the Delta Blues", and is credited with creating an enduring body of American music and personally inspiring just about every Delta blues man...

.

Shaker would be the last album David Johansen released as a solo artist before reuniting and returning to the New York Dolls

New York Dolls

The New York Dolls is an American rock band, formed in New York in 1971. The band's protopunk sound prefigured much of what was to come in the punk rock era; their visual style influenced the look of many new wave and 1980s-era glam metal groups, and they began the local New York scene that later...

 in 2004.

Tracks

1. Furry's Blues
2. I'll Go With Her
3. Deep Blue Sea
4. My Morphine
5. Ham Hound Crave
6. Let the Mermaids Flirt With Me
7. I Can't Be Satisfied
8. In Love Again
9. Death Letter
10. My Grandpa is Old Too
11. Jailbird Love Song
12. High Sheriff
13. Kassie Jones
14. The Last Kind Words

Musicians

• David Johansen
  David Johansen
  David Roger Johansen is an American rock, protopunk, blues, and pop singer, as well as a songwriter and actor. He is best known as a member of the seminal protopunk band The New York Dolls and also achieved commercial success under the pseudonym Buster Poindexter.-Early life:Johansen was born in...
  
  - Guitar, Vocals, Harmonica
• Larry Saltzman - Banjo, Guitar
• Joey Baron - Percussion
• Kermit Driscoll - Bass, Didjeridu
• Brian Koonin - Guitar, Mandolin, Producer

Links

• Chesky Records Shaker Official Site