"A typical shotgun shack is defined as 'a house that is one room wide and at least two rooms deep.' The name of this style of house may be derived from an African word to-gun, meaning a place of assembly. Folk etymology, however, attributes the name to the fact that you could shoot a shotgun straight through the house because of its linear arrangement of rooms and doors."

What does this have to do with country music? Nothing much, except that lead vocalist Andrew Shack happens to share a last name with the legendary structure. That, and the moniker perfectly evokes the back-to-basics sounds that he and his crack five-man crew evoke, through both a staggering (and finely executed) arsenal of covers from the likes of Johnny, Merle, and Waylon, and through Shack's own originals, which find their foundation deep in the red mud of those classic honky-tonk styles.

Band review by Uncle Leon. Historical info courtesy of Andrew Shack.

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