Accolades & Awards
Austin Chronicle's Austin Music Awards
- 2006 "None of the Above" Winner
- 2006 #13 "Best Album" for "Live on the Radio"
- 2007 "Novelty" Winner
- 2007 Placed in Jazz, Bluegrass, Experimental, None of the Above, Female Vocals, and Horns
- 2008 "None of the Above" Winner
In the March 2006 issue of Playback St. Louis, KDHX named the White Ghost Shivers one of the top 10 most important acts playing SXSW 2006.
"From the sublime to the ridiculous: The Austin-based Chicken Ranch Records sent me an advance copy of a CD from The White Ghost Shivers. Never heard of them? Me either. Folks, they're just bizarre, even more so than The Gourds. They have kind of a Dixieland-meets-hillbilly-meets-ragtime sound, and they're a little filthy to boot, so basically, I love 'em. As if their whole vibe weren't cool enough, they also cover "Weed Smoker's Dream," the seductive song that Jessica Rabbit sang in "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?". Delicious."
Amarillo Globe News, Chip Chandler, April 2006
"Better than cozying up around the wireless with a jug of wicked moonshine, the White Ghost Shivers' Live on the Radio foxtrots between ragtime and rockabilly with gleeful vaudevillian energy. The nine-piece act, best consumed live, is rapidly emerging as a darling of Austin's music scene, thanks to the time-warping annual Halloween Ball and the recent addition of a sultry-voiced Cella Blue to the lineup. The Shivers recorded their sophomore album live on -- you guessed it -- Austin's KUT-FM and KVRX-FM radio stations. Though crisper and more confident than their 2003 debut, Hokum if you Got 'Em, this release treads the same peculiar path, shaking up a cocktail with two parts hot jazz horns and one part carnival accordion, with a dash of burlesque kazoos."
Texas Music Magazine, Jen Biundo, Winter 2006
"Pinwheeling their vaudevillian delivery to Western swing, bluegrass, hot jazz, blues, hillbilly, and ragtime, Austin's White Ghost Shivers have proven themselves a formidable live band over the last half-dozen years. Performance prowess has garnered the local octet live radio spots, a loyal following for their Halloween blowouts, the call to score Buster Keaton films for the Alamo Drafthouse, and out-of-state tours. Following last year's re-release of debut Hokum If You Got 'Em, Live compiles on-air guest spots from UT and KVRX from 2002-2004, and while WGS is a well-oiled act onstage, not all live shows are equal. Radio spots have ightrope-without-a-net energy and better sound control, but only an imagined version of the performer-audience dynamic. On top of that, it's pretty ballsy to release two similarly songed LPs in the same year. Luckily for WGS, radio versions of studio tunes ("Outhouse Blues," "Tell It to Me") are rendered better, while lady-vox-driven opener "Pipe Dreams" and the randy "Big N Easy" anchor this broadcast. Like the live arena, Radio is a temporal pleasure."
Austin Chronicle, David Lynch, January 2006.
"The swinging tempos of their upbeat songs invoke the frantic explorations of 1920’s culture. Listening to the old time a-pickin’ and a-blowin’ brought images of the archetypical flapper cuttin’ a rug ragtime style."
Red River Rank and Review
