Shovelman
Shovelman is a junkyard beatnik, a shovel guitar wielding surrealist folk superhero. Armed with a collection of pawnshop effects pedals and an old barn-shovel turned slide-guitar, Shovelman plays ol’ fashioned folktronica-grooves looped straight out of the ground. The sounds of Mississippi delta blues from the electro-psychedelic future, collide with the antiquated rubble of lyrical one-man-band hoboetry. Shovelman has become infamous on the west coast festival circuit, opening for bands that include Primus, Beats Antique, James Blake and many others.
“Shovelman has forged a perfect merger of the past and the present with his bluesy ‘folktronic’ sound.” – LA Weekly
“Shovelman’s music would be playing on the radio if Tom Waits and Les Claypool ever went on a road trip together ……and were lost.” – Chip, ‘So Wat TV
