Revivalist David Shaw plays the Café Boogaloo
David Shaw, lead singer of The Revivalists, plays a rare solo show at Café Boogaloo Tuesday night. Pouring concrete is good sweaty work. At the end of a day, a body knows it has been used, and a trail of hardening ground has been left to show for it. David Shaw grew up pouring concrete in Ohio and was fine with the notion that he’d spend his life doing construction. He always played music, but when he went to college, he studied construction management and kept his singing and songwriting off to the side. It was a hobby. Then not long after graduating college, in 2006, he entered a statewide radio contest and won. Suddenly it occurred to him this music thing might be more than a hobby. “I wasn’t super serious about it, then I won that contest, and it was like out of 300 people all over Ohio – it gave me a little kick in the butt,” Shaw said. “Like, ‘Hey, maybe you ought to pursue something in music a little more than you are.’ Then I moved to New Orleans, and the rest is history.” Shaw now leads The Revivalists, one of the hottest young bands emerging from the considerable musical entity that is the Crescent City. The Revivalists earlier this month were given the honor of kicking…
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