Listening to Shakey Graves on Radio Paradise

Shakey Graves — Mansion Door

Album: Can’t Wake Up
Avg rating:

6.5

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Total ratings: 588

Released: 0
Length: 4:22
Plays (last 30 days): 7

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Above, below
Under a lonely star
Head to toe, hand in hand
It gets a whole lot better

If your telephone rings at night
Would you put some time aside
To shut your eyes and fall apart
Under the light of a lonely star
My one and only lonely star

Above, below
Under a lonely star
Another day to sit around and dream
As far as I can see
As long as memory
I'll be watching from afar
Under the light of a lonely star
My one and only lonely star

Fire burning
Clean-cut flowers in the yard
Daylight turning
All the sleeping statues into girls
I feel nothing
Sleep is never coming
I hear laughter from afar
Must be the song of a lonely star

If you knew what would happen
Then you'd never set foot in the mansion door
So many voices singing all of your praises
It gets a whole lot better
It gets a whole lot better
I hope it gets a whole lot better

If you leave, please don't go far
I need the light of a lonely star
My one and only lonely star
My one and only lonely star

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Seems like this should be rated higher. Me thinks RP listeners see an artist in a cowboy hat and immediately lower their opinion. Total understandable, but this is a good tune! A solid 8

Posted 13 hours ago by Ipse_Dixit [ Reply ]

He sings "Above, below", but I can't not hear that as "A buffalo". I guess when you live in Buffalo, you hear it everywhere.

Posted 2 months ago by cbrandtbuffalo [ Reply ]

jlind wrote:

Don't get the hate for this track... solid 7 from me

I think some of the hate is because he will basically switch genres mid-song (i.e. accoustic bouncy melody into power chord rock guitar)

Posted 2 months ago by Ihatethissong [ Reply ]

I don't care what the negative nellies and nattering nabobs of negativity say. This is a good song. I bumped it up from a 7 to an 8 out of spite.

Posted 4 months ago by Ipse_Dixit [ Reply ]

jlind wrote:

Don't get the hate for this track... solid 7 from me

It's a solid skip.

Posted 8 months ago by jerryatrics [ Reply ]

Confession time - there are a few artists on here whose bio pictures I find a bit of a turn-off; Shakey Graves, Greg Brown, Chris Stapleton (don't ask me - the heart knows what the heart knows) so I haven't really paid attention to Mr Graves. Howver, my son is a big fan and I have to say I really like this song. I'll be less prejudiced in future (I hope).

Posted 10 months ago by Edweirdo [ Reply ]

This has a very different sound from SG that I am familiar with. Good but different.

Posted 11 months ago by surfool [ Reply ]

Random association. This album cover instantly evokes Bowie's Ziggy Stardust album cover for me.

Posted 1 year ago by Jayesea [ Reply ]

I'm hearing a distinct riff from Nirvana's "In Bloom"...
w/o that, I'd give it a solid 4.5...

Posted 1 year ago by RicoDrumz [ Reply ]

I like Shakey Graves - their(his) style is unique and thoughtful. Production is very interesting.

Posted 1 year ago by tm [ Reply ]

acbauer wrote:

A little generic but not bad.

Of course, you're entitled to your opinion but, this man AND his music, are certainly not even in the "generic" neighborhood. Actually, quite the opposite.

Posted 1 year ago by Signwrtr61 [ Reply ]

Don't get the hate for this track... solid 7 from me

Posted 1 year ago by jlind [ Reply ]

Shakey Graves is the musician love interest for the coach's daughter in one season of Friday Night Lights. All of a sudden, I said "I know that voice" and looked up his real name.

Posted 1 year ago by q4Fry [ Reply ]

xcranky_yankee wrote:

just curious if the name is a riff on Shady Grove?
love that tune...

Nope. See the artist blurb. It was a joke name his friends came up with over a music fest campfire, after a tripping stranger said something funny.