“Shadowland can conjure some eerie images,” the late, great American Blues Scene editor JD Nash once wrote.
“The word evokes dark, obscure phantoms in the places they live, just outside our reality. Shadowland was the name of the Wichita, Kansas roadhouse where owner/entertainer Gage Brewer first debuted the electric guitar in 1932. Shadowland is also the name of the band fronted by Kansas-born guitar slinger Glenn Alexander.”
And if you don’t recognize his name yet, he’s been the lead guitarist for Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes for well over a decade. Raised on southern rock and midwest blues, Alexander studied jazz and progressive rock which can also be heard in his playing. When not gigging with Southside, Glenn and Shadowland tour the world bringing their “guitar-driven, horn-laced, in-your-face, soulful, blues-drenched music” to the masses.
The band has released a new song called “Wada B. Merky,” which Alexander describes as a “groovin’ toe tapper with the incomparable Oria singing, the delicious Juke horns (Chris, John & Neal), funky bass by Greg Novick, Dave Anthony throwin’ down, bad boy Scott Healy on organ, and yours truly singin’ and strummin’ da geetar.”
