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The Shanes (German polka band)

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Active until
  
1969

Genre
  
Rock music


Origin
  
Tuolluvaara, Sweden (1963)

Members
  
Lennart Grahn, Kit Sundqvist

Albums
  
Let Us Show You, Shanes Again!, Ssss Shanes!

Similar
  
Tages, Hep Stars, Ola & the Janglers, Idolerna, Tommy Blom

The Shanes are a German folk rock, folk punk, and hard polka band from Trier, active from 1991 until the present. The band has published 11 albums and tours mainly in Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Luxembourg, but they have also performed in the United States/Texas, Great Britain, France and Hungary

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Members

  • Kornelius Flowers (since 1991) - vocals
  • Jörg "Warpig" Stoffregen (since 2004) - guitar, banjo, mandolin
  • Matt Dawson (since 2011) - pedal steel, dobro, mandolin
  • Chris Birch (since 2011) - fiddle
  • Nataša Grujović (since 2008) - accordion
  • Herr Dannehl (since 1994) - bass guitar, upright b≥ass
  • "Boergermeister" Markus Schu (since 2006) - drums
  • Albums

  • 1992: Songs From the Urban Country Hell (Strangeways/Indigo)
  • 1993: Polka Hard (Strangeways/Indigo)
  • 1994: Love Will Tear Us Apart – Vinyl-Single (Strangeways/Indigo)
  • 1995: These Days EP (Strangeways/Indigo)
  • 1996: Budapest Sessions feat. VEZERKAR (HU)
  • 1998: 5 Years of Hard Polka 1993-1998
  • 2001: The Haunted House Of Polka (Pinorrekk/Edel)
  • 2005: Pölka (SumoRex/Broken Silence)
  • 2007: Polka over Serbja – live in Chośebuz (SumoRex/Broken Silence)
  • 2009: Squandering Youth (SumoRex/Broken Silence)
  • 2013: Road Worrier (SumoRex/Broken Silence)
  • Songs

    Vem får följa dig hem1999
    Gunfight SaloonLet Us Show You · 1964
    Chris-Craft No 91979

    References

    The Shanes (German polka band) Wikipedia