Drummers on Drumming Big Fat Five: Tim Carman's (GA-20) Top 5 Influential Records
This week’s guest is Tim Carman. Tim international touring musician, session drummer, educator, and published author with both Alfred Music and Hudson Music. He’s released 5 books and we talk about all of them at the end of our chat. Tim currently records and tours extensively with GA-20, a three-time Billboard #1 blues trio as well as leading two of his own projects: Tim Carman & The Street 45s—a world-groove inspired funk band—and the Tim Carman Trio—a vintage organ jazz trio. He loves to shuffle and I loved this chat. Big shoutout to Zack from the podcast Working Drummer for connecting Tim and me. This was a fun one with excellent choices and one of my favorite honorable mentions in this shows history. So I hope you enjoy the 5 records that shaped Tim Carmen into the drummer he is today. Cheers!
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TIM'S BIG FAT FIVE 👇🏻
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Album - The Colour and the Shape
Artist - Foo Fighters
Release Year - 1997
Key Track(s) - All ("Hey, Johnny Park!")
Drummer - Dave Grohl
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Album - Cracklin'
Artist - Roy Haynes with Booker Ervin
Release Year - 1963
Key Track(s) - Scoochie
Drummer - Roy Haynes
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Album - Funkify Your Life: The Meters Anthology
Artist - The Meters
Release Year - 1995
Key Track(s) - Live Wire, Yea You're Right, Pungee, Cissy Strut
Drummer - Zigaboo Modeliste
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Album - The Capitol Vaults Jazz Series: Big John Patton
Artist - Big John Patton
Release Year - 2011
Key Track(s) - The Silver Meter, Spiffy Diffy, String Bean
Drummer - Ben Dixon (First two tracks), Clifford Jarvis (String Bean)
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Album - Natural Boogie
Artist - Hound Dog Taylor
Release Year - 1974
Key Track(s) - See Me In the Evening
Drummer - Ted Harvey
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