Shimmy, by Billy Martin & Wil Blades

Shimmy

by Billy Martin & Wil Blades

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1.	Brother Bru 03:07	buy track
2.	Mean Greens 05:23	buy track
3.	In a Fried Pickle 07:09	buy track
4.	Les and Eddie 04:18	buy track
5.	Pick Pocket 03:53	buy track
6.	Down by the Riverside 06:11	buy track
7.	Toe Thumb 04:34	buy track
8.	Little Shimmy 06:49	buy track
9.	Give 05:12	buy track
10.	Dehna Hunu 01:07	buy track

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Billy Martin and Wil Blades wanna make you Shimmy. The organ/drums duo waste no time getting right down to it on their debut album due May 22 from The Royal Potato Family in collaboraton with Martin's own Amulet Records. Martin and Blades go old school in the tradition of essential organ-groove sides by the likes of Charles Earland, Brother Jack McDuff and Groove Holmes. Martin, the drummer for the legendary Medeski, Martin & Wood, and Blades, a much buzzed about young organist from the San Francisco live music scene, first came together for a low-key, one-off late night set during the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in 2011.. The music that evening was so deep in the pocket that the pair knew instantly there would be more shows together in their future. A West Coast tour was arranged for later in the year, which played to packed houses from Washington to California. In the middle of the run, Martin and Blades ducked into a Berkeley recording studio to capture what would become Shimmy.

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released May 22, 2012

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Billy Martin New York, New York

Billy Martin was born in NYC in 1963. In the late 1970's, he devoted himself to music and dove into Manhattan’s thriving, eclectic musical landscape.

From the roots of the downtown scene he emerged with Medeski Martin and Wood, bridging the harmonic complexity of jazz, the conversational fluency of free improvisation, and the groove and swagger of classic R&B and funk. ... more

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