Martin Medeski & Wood - Shack-man The Talking Heads Building on the rustic style

Building on the rustic style he experimented with on 'John Wesley Harding' (1967)

deeply personal collection of impressionistic folk-styled epics

and is the sound of facing whatever mother nature decides will find it's way to the top of the list

authenticity

which included additional hits like "Take a Bow" and "Disturbia

Martin Medeski & Wood - Shack-man The Talking Heads Building on the rustic styleThough the trio of John Medeski, Billy Martin, and Chris Wood had already expanded the jazz genre with their first three records (two of which we have reissued here at Real Gone Music), it was this 1996 album that really crossed over and won the ensemble a whole new legion of listeners in the "jam band" camp. Recorded in a remote, solar powered plywood shack in Hawaii (hence the title), Shack Man brought the '70s soul jazz beloved by the band firmly