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How Keith Carlock Built a Sound No One Can Copy
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Video essay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tot2osqBPFQ&t
Keith Carlock might be the most quietly influential drummer working today: jazz educated, delta raised, and impossible to pin to a single genre. This video essay traces how he engineered that sound.
We start in Clinton, Mississippi, where a childhood steeped in soul, R&B and funk (Stevie Wonder, Earth, Wind & Fire, Tower of Power) gave Carlock the pocket as a first language, not a theory learned later. From there it's North Texas and the jazz studies programme under the legendary Ed Soph, the improvisational laboratory of the 55 Bar with the Wayne Krantz Trio, and the microscopic perfectionism of his long tenure with Steely Dan.
Along the way we break down what he actually brings to the music: his read on Toto's "Hold the Line" live in 2014, channelling Jeff Porcaro while pushing the groove harder, the linear funk of Rudder's "3 AM Club", and the way he threads human swing through Steely Dan's unforgiving grid. It's a study in one idea: character and precision were never mutually exclusive.
Chapters:
00:00 – Intro
00:44 – Starting out
01:43 – North Texas & Ed Soph
03:20 – New York & Wayne Krantz
04:54 – Steely Dan
05:50 – Toto
06:40 – Rudder
07:07 – Steely Dan (Cont'd)
07:36 – Why Carlock matters
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