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Shakey Graves
Solo artist Austin
Shakey Graves is an artist from Austin. Shakey Graves has 36 chart appearances on 30 radio countdowns from 16 stations on RockLists, spanning 2014–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Dearly Departed”, which appears on 22 lists with a best position of #4. The station that charted Shakey Graves most often is WYEP (Pittsburgh, PA), with 8 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2014.
Alejandro Rose-Garcia, born in 1987 and rooted in Austin, Texas, makes music as Shakey Graves, and it's a junk-shop blend of blues, folk, country and rock and roll, played on guitar and drum kit with a grin and a stomp. The name has a suitably ramshackle origin: a stranger at the Old Settler's Music Festival in 2007, apparently tripping on LSD, mumbled something like "spooky wagons", and a round of joke nicknames around a campfire did the rest. After a good night of playing, he kept it.
And the War Came, his 2014 album on Dualtone, is where the rest of the world caught up. "Dearly Departed" is the calling card, a rickety, rollicking thing that sounds like a front-porch jam somebody forgot to stop recording, and he won the Americana Award for Emerging Act of the Year in 2015. The Sleep EP followed in 2018 with "Kids These Days", and Big in the World in 2023 brought "Ready Or Not". He has also done some acting, turning up on Friday Night Lights.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Shakey Graves on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dearly Departed | 22 | #4 | – | 2015 | |
| 2 | Ready Or Not | 6 | #14 | – | 2023 | |
| 3 | Kids These Days | 5 | #545 | – | – | |
| 4 | A World So Full Of Love | 1 | #313 | – | – | |
| 5 | Mansion Door | 1 | #115 | – | 2018 | |
| 6 | Roll The Bones | 1 | #616 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
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Songs by other artists credited with Shakey Graves as a guest.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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