Joeyby Shovels & Rope

Shovels & Rope will be at the Triple Door for two nights this week, February 28 and March 1. Tickets here tickets.thetripledoor.net

Shovels & Rope is back with Busted Jukebox Volume 2. Two years after the first iteration — which featured team-ups with Shakey Graves, Lucius, Preservation Jazz Hall Band, and more covering famed cuts from the likes of Elvis Costello, Guns N’ Roses, and Nine Inch Nails — the folk-rock duo (and real-life couple) are ready to share version two. For the song "Joey" featuring singer and new pal Nicole Atkins, they told Entertainment Weekly: "“We wanted to make a version of this song that sounded like a spooky, garage-y Diana Ross and the Supremes — with us playing the role of the Supremes. The lyrics are so mysterious, vivid, and wonderful that we thought it’d be cool to toy with the visualization of them by making it sound as much like how we saw them playing out in our minds as possible. We chose to stagger our voices coming in and out of the verses so it could broaden the story a little and introduce different characters at different times and also make you wonder, ‘WTF is going on here?’