Island dancers cooked up real fast shake
August 21, 1994
Times-Colonist
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
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They came in baby carriages. They came in wheelchairs. The came on foot. Thousands came to see the “fast shaking dance.”
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The Blue Shadows are a harder-edged unit who dig deeper into the roots of country. The resulting rockabilly-meets-Hank-Williams mix was impressive. The vocal harmonies of the cadaverous Billy Cowsill (a Keith Richards dead-ringer) and Jeffrey Hatcher tapped that sweet spot between Hank Williams, the Everly brothers and honky-tonk paradise.
High points included Hatcher’s crunchy guitar licks on Coming On Strong, the hurtin’ vocal harmonies of A Thousand Times and Deliver Me. The later was memorable for the distorted tremolo guitar chording and Cowsill (who one said he bought a bar and drank it dry) singing, hands clasped: “Deliver us from our yesterdays.”
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