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See more at: http://www.shakedownmambo.com/
Directed and produced by Loren A. Roberts for Hearken Creative: http://www.hearkencreative.com
with special thanks to Lilly Wild
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Rattle Around In Your Bones & SHAKE!

Shakedown Mambo is the latest in a long journey for two wonderfully musical personalities. These guys are steeped in the very roots of American music.

Forged by the coming together of cultural traditions from many countries, including Africa, France, Spain, the Caribbean, Latin America and Native American Indians, some heartfelt new music started simmering in both Louisiana and Mississippi. New Orleans had some of the most fertile ground, breathing life into American Blues, Jazz, Rhythm & Blues and Rock & Roll.

As all this music grew, it snaked up the backbone of America, along the mighty Mississippi River. It travelled north to Memphis, worked its way over to St. Louis and eventually all the way up to Chicago and even to the east, Detroit, New York and Philadelphia. Then it spread like wildfire, with people all over the nation eagerly embracing one form or another of this new homegrown music.

America finally had musical roots, still young ones, but roots they were, roots that would stand the test of time and support a whole tree of music for the entire world to feel. Roots that had teeth into the very soul of life.

Shakedown Mambo seeks to preserve and extend the legacy of this grand musical tradition and uniquely American art form in the best way possible.

At the heart of the "Mambo" are Rick Solem and Phil Bloch. Their music lives and breathes those rich American roots. We're talkin' New Orleans, the Mississippi Delta and on up the river, looking to the left and looking to the right. We're talkin' years of playing, writing, arranging, recording and producing music. We're talkin' about having a real understanding of where they come from and where they're goin'. And we're talkin' about love, cause there ain't no way to do this without havin' the love -- for the music, for the journey and for the life.