Coyote Shivers Gives It To Ya. Twice CD

With Gives It to Ya. Twice, N.Y.C. transplant and L.A. dweller Coyote Shivers unleashes a winning, overstuffed set that splits material into two discs by approach. The full-on rockers are subtitled One Sick Pup and it's a fitting title as Shivers comes off like a raw, cathartic, debased Johnny Thunders-like character. The man works his charms with augmentation from notables like Television's Billy Ficca, howling his way through electrified nuggets like "Lust Never Sleeps" and "Live to Regret It." The latter gets repeated on the acoustic disc, which Shivers dubs From My Bedroom to Yours. It's a soul-baring, intimate, and oftentimes more immediate forum for the guy's songs, be it the devotional "Sugar High," the melodic self-analysis of "I Dress in Black," or the total downer "I Hate Myself Tonite." Gives It to Ya. Twice is a 21-track onslaught sure to expand the cult of the Coyote. ~ John D. Luerssen

The NY Press raves that "Shivers is like Lou Reed without the dark pose, Elvis Costello without the thesaurus, the Rolling Stones with a sense of humor, and Richard Hell without the chip on his shoulder." In other words, there is more to Coyote Shivers than his brief appearance performing "Sugarhigh" on the rooftop with Renee Zellweger in the cult favorite "Empire Records" would lead you to believe.If you've never seen Empire Records and Coyote still looks familiar, you may have seen him on stage opening for Kiss on one of their reunion tours (when will they end?), on one of two specials for E! Entertainment or sharing the screen with Lemmy in "Down and Out with the Dolls." If you are more of the documentary type of person -- nothing wrong with that -- you may have seen him in "Badsville," a look at the LA music scene. Then again, if you just happen to one of those bi-coastal types like Coyote, you could have seen him perform on his own either in LA or NY."Gives It To Ya. Twice." is a 2 CD set -- an electric disc ("One Sick Pup") and an acoustic disc ("From My Bedroom, To Yours"). The tracks on "One Sick Pup" are listed as tracks 1 - 12 ("Plus One" through the title track). "Sugarhigh" through "It's All Over" are on "From My Bedroom, To Yours."

Personnel: Coyote Shivers (guitar, piano); Coyote Shivers (vocals); Share Ross, Casper (bass guitar); Bam, Steve Sinnicks, Chad Stewart (drums); Jack Pedler, Billy Ficca (drums).

Photographers: Pauley P.; Stephanie Chernikowski.