THE SHIFTERS - "S/T" LP a trombone player and singer

a trombone player and singer who formed the group sometime in the mid 1970s with his sister

The composite sound-image of After the Bend refuses to put both oars down into any one of the eddies of the folk

recorded live at Louisville's lovable shit-hole karaoke dump (since-turned gentrifying sports bar/brewery) T

but it’s still a fascinating footnote from a transitional era

the inscrutable trio suggests a creeping theme

THE SHIFTERS - "S/T" LP a trombone player and singerThe Shifters The Shifters LP (Digital Regress, 2020) "I wrote about the debut cassette from Melbournes the SHIFTERS in the very first column that I did for MRR three years ago, which gives me all sorts of complicated and confusing feelings about the passage of time. And as evidence that sometimes it takes awhile for historical wrongs to be righted, that criminally limited tape is now finally available in its entirety as an LP on the new French label