White Ghost Shivers is a Jazz-cabaret hectic and joyful band based in Austin, Texas. They formed in 1999 and evoke their music like this :
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Imagine a smorgasbord of Cab Calloway, circus sideshow, KISS, cabaret, Hee Haw and Robert Johnson served up at Andy Kaufman's bat-mitzvah. A joyous mixture of the absurd and sublime, the six-piece ensemble gracefully blends a musical amalgam of Hokum Blues, Hillbilly Swing, Country and Hot Jazz. »
The seven members of the band wear nicknames :
Cella Blue, Saturn, Shorty Stump, Hot Thomas, Smokebreak Slemenda, Poppiticus and
Baby-faced Finster.
Westen Borghesi, aka Shorty Stump — a 6 and 1/2 feet tall guy — sings and plays banjo, ukulele, baritone horn and... nose flute.
In their album
Hokum If You Got 'Em, not less than 3 songs include some nose flute :
White Ghost Shivers Ball,
Eliza May and
One Eyed Sam. The nose whistling style of Shorty Stump is singular since, provoking a deep vibrato by shaking his Humanatone with his hand, Westen gets a sound very near a musical saw.
Here is a short excerpt of Eliza May (the entire song and the others can be purchased on iTunes or
Amazon)
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