Moe's Alley Presents: Shinyribs w/ Schaefer Llana

Name: Moe's Alley Presents: Shinyribs w/ Schaefer Llana
Start: 2026-07-10T20:00:00-07:00
Location: Moe's Alley, Santa Cruz

Schedule

Fri, 10 Jul, 2026 at 08:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Moe's Alley, Santa Cruz | Santa Cruz, CA

Moe's Alley presents a sonic melting pot of Texas blues, New Orleans R&B-funk and horn-driven Memphis soul with Shinyribs! Special guest Schaefer Llana opens the show!
Friday, July 10, 2026
Doors: 7pm / Show: 8pm
$25 in advance / $30 day of the show
21+
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SHINYRIBS
We will maybe never know what Shinyribs is. Sometimes, it’s a sprawling multi-piece ensemble slapping the air until it grooves; sometimes he’s a somber subtle songwriter pouring poetry on the ground from a cup half full. Either way it’s always the house-party-meets-library that is, Kevin Russell.
Raised in Beaumont, TX, and Shreveport, LA—the cradle of swamp pop, Leadbelly, and bayou R&B—Russell distills those regional sounds into something both timeless and immediate, dripping from his fingers like honey, salt & fat. Think Texas Gulf Coast meets Muscle Shoals, songs carved and weaved by hand with a storyteller’s heart.
Shinyribs evolved from a solo residency Russell began under that moniker in the mid-2000s, after an incident in a Houston club, playing a private party for a group of welders where he bought a homeless woman a plate of ribs. “Her name was Roberta,” says Russell. “She was a high priestess of transistor radios and an almost forgotten music she called ‘Chilibump.’ For that plate of Ribs that night she gave me in return a name, Shinyribs and a road map to the mysterious big thicket sounds I had only heard of from old timers and time travelers.”