The first collaboration between Colorado’s Leftmore and Nebraska’s Beatmaker Bill is finally complete. This album has been a long time coming. “Team Work” Volume 1 will be available in 2016 at www.PlayItCoolRecords.com.
A CD release tour is also being planned for 2016.
“Team Work” Volume 1 consist of 13 live tracks recorded at the Play It Cool Records Studio in Grand Island, Nebraska in 2013. These tracks were later sent to Dako in Enders, Nebraska to have a small amount of instrumentation added, then mixed.
Joe Ziggler acts as the sole songwriter and visual artist for this album. Beatmaker Bill acting as percussionist and project manager. “Team Work” Volume 1 is a duel label release on both Play It Cool Records & Mad One Records.
Joe Ziggler (Leftmore) and Beatmaker Bill met in 2008 at a concert in which they were both performing in Kearney, Nebraska. Beatmaker Bill was living there at the time and Leftmore was on tour from Colorado. After hearing each other’s set, the two became friends.
Joe Ziggler (Leftmore) could easily be the Midwest’s hardest working folk musician and artist. Since 2008 Leftmore has been on 29 different tours and has played over 700 shows. Joe has also been doing visual art shows during this time. Doing all of his own booking and management, Joe is a busy guy.
Between 2008 and 2013, Joe would always stay at Beatmaker Bill’s house and Beatmaker Bill would play percussion with Leftmore at some of his shows in Nebraska. The two always spoke about doing an album of Leftmore’s songs with Beatmaker Bill on the djembe. It was not until a Leftmore tour, promoting his album Dog Catcher, in 2013 that the process began. Joe stopped by Play It Cool Records’ studio and stayed for three days to record “Team Work” Volume 1 with Beatmaker Bill on the djembe. A new duo was born.
Leftmore is a legend.
Beatmaker Bill is a beatmaker.
The music is real.
The music is coming.
The music is where you are.
Leftmore & Beatmaker Bill – “Team Work” Volume 1
Track Listing:
- Music Where You Are
- Golden Thread
- Lost & Jealous
- Apple Tree
- Fall
- Right Now
- Drinking with Ghost
- Cave
- Just Rain
- Work Hard
- Paint
- The Rebuttal
- So Don’t