Rusty Shipp

Nautically-themed band Rusty Shipp was founded in 2014 in Nashville, TN, and just released a ghostly rock shanty of “Spanish Ladies” with some experimental and artistic sounds added. Shanty fans abroad are excited to hear such a new, creative innovation of this classic. The band’s original songs range from acoustic ballads like “The Lighthouse” and “On The Docks” to surf rock songs like “Aquamoto” and “Detonator,” all the way to piratesque shanties with an underwater grungy rock sound such as “Davy Jones” and “King of the Deep.”

True to their name, Nashville’s Rusty Shipp have created a sound known as Nautical Rock ‘n’ Roll. Characterized by its dark, underwater sound, haunting vocals, and unconventional riffs, the music sounds appropriately like a “rusty ship”! The band has created a multi-dimensional, artistic experience that integrates music, narrative story-telling, illustration, and video to take the listener on a voyage into their underwater world with its undercurrent of provocative philosophies. Artistry and depth aside though, their music is most memorable for the Beatlesque chord progressions and hooky vocal melodies at the core of every song.

Named after singer-songwriter Russ T. Shipp, the band was started in 2014 in Nashville, TN and grew to include AJ Newton on drums, Doug Webster on bass, and Rex Shredman (Ryan Starkman) on lead guitar. Russ T. has his own signature sound, weaving his raspy voice in and out of falsetto and vibrato; at times sounding like a “higher-pitched Kurt Cobain,” as one music critic put it, and other times like a ghost. The band’s goal is to “inspire people’s imagination, fill them with hope, and do our part to increase harmony in the world using the medicine of music.”

Our Mission: to inspire people’s imagination, fill them with hope, and do our part to increase harmony in the world using the medicine of music.