Onion Shannon & the Clams

• 1 The Boy 03:02
• 2 It's Gonna Go Away 03:11
• 3 Backstreets 03:27
• 4 If You Could Know 01:53
• 5 I Never Wanted Love 03:39
• 6 Onion 02:48
• 7 Did You Love Me 03:32
• 8 Love Strike 02:49
• 9 I Leave Again 03:10
• 10 Tryin' 03:58
• 11 Tell Me When You Leave 02:23
• 12 Strange Wind 03:22
• 13 Don't Close Your Eyes 04:01
• Total Runtime 41:15

Info for Onion

Shannon & The Clams’ forthcoming release Onion drops on February 16th via Dan Auerbach’s Easy Eye Sound. Today, the band has shared their music video for Onion’s lead single, “The Boy,” directed by Ryan Daniel Browne.Onion, was produced by The Black Keys front man Dan Auerbach at his Nashville studio. On their new album, the band explores themes of origin and self-determination, loss and recovery, and the power of community to heal after tragedy. “It’s okay for people to interpret the songs,” Shannon Shaw says. “You can put your own story into it if that helps you heal. I just want people to feel something, whatever it is.”

Shannon & The Clams had already begun writing for the Onion sessions in Fall 2016, when their world was rattled by the Oakland Ghost Ship warehouse fire in early December. In the wake of the fire, the band looked back at their origins in the Oakland underground and the importance of that world to their genesis. They could recognize the community as a delicate incubator for fringe art, and an unstable but nurturing place for performers to practice and cross-pollinate where there otherwise is no platform. The song “Backstreets” is Cody’s response to the Ghost Ship fire, and particularly the issues of artist housing and being forced to make your own way in a society that is not arranged to accommodate artists. Album closer “Don’t Close Your Eyes” is Shannon’s response, an inspirational ballad urging those suffering through loss to not give up in the midst of tragedy.

Over the last decade, Shannon and her chief collaborator guitarist Cody Blanchard have released four albums of 60s-inspired pop on indie labels, toured tirelessly and have gradually solidified a lineup of devoted Bay Area musicians. In this current iteration, Shannon and the Clams, consisting of Shannon Shaw on bass and vocals, Cody Blanchard on guitar and vocals, Nate Mahan on drums, and Will Sprott on keyboards.

„Shannon Shaw and Cody Blanchard trick out warped Fifties-Sixties rock driven by space-age thrift-shop keyboards, shimmy-shake dance grooves and sexy moonlit vocals – Shaw's woozy Amy Winehouse-isms are backlit by Blanchard's shrieky falsetto.’“ –(Rolling Stone)

Shannon Shaw, bass, vocals
Cody Blanchard, guitar, vocals
Nate Mahan, drums
Will Sprott, keyboards

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