MASCOT LABEL GROUP LAUNCHES PLAYERS CLUB IMPRINT WITH
RELEASE
OF KOCH MARSHALL TRIO ALBUM TOBY ARRIVES ON FEBRUARY
23, 2018
The
Koch-Marshall Trio Are American Guitarist Greg Koch, His Son Dylan Koch On
Drums
and Hammond B3 Specialist Toby Lee Marshall
New York, NY --- Mascot
Label Group has announced the release of Koch Marshall Trio’s Toby Arrives
on February 23, 2018. This will be the first album on the new imprint THE
PLAYERS CLUB. At the heart of this organ trio is a blues sensibility
- but Koch's compositions are an amalgam of rock, funk, jazz and country served
up with heavy grooves and dynamic improvisations delivered with no small dose
of humor and occasional wild abandon.
The trio blends the explosive guitar manipulations of Greg, the groove-centric, power-pocket playing of his son Dylan on drums (who share many telepathic musical moments) and the glorious, Hammond organ stylings of the uber-talented Toby Marshall, Greg’s compositions are properly portrayed in the blues drenched, funk, chicken-fried, gospely jazz-rock panorama in which they were conceived. Their first release, “Toby Arrives” the first moments of their unexpected musical partnership captured at an extemporaneous jam session earlier in the year.
The trio blends the explosive guitar manipulations of Greg, the groove-centric, power-pocket playing of his son Dylan on drums (who share many telepathic musical moments) and the glorious, Hammond organ stylings of the uber-talented Toby Marshall, Greg’s compositions are properly portrayed in the blues drenched, funk, chicken-fried, gospely jazz-rock panorama in which they were conceived. Their first release, “Toby Arrives” the first moments of their unexpected musical partnership captured at an extemporaneous jam session earlier in the year.
“So we went over there…the
drums and B-3 were already set up and mic’ed. I sat down with my guitar and
said, ‘Let’s just do a shuffle in G.’ And as soon as I heard it back I said,
‘We’re releasing this!’ So the very first notes we ever played is that first
song you hear on the album, totally unrehearsed. And just from that very first
tune I was like, ‘Holy shit! This is not your grandfather’s organ trio!’” Greg
Koch
“Toby had actually retired
from music,” Koch says of the 39-year-old Hammond B-3 ace. “For the last
several years he’s been working for a farm, driving a semi and taking crops to the Twin Cities
from River Falls. He had two young kids so he decided to stop touring to help
raise the kids. For Toby, it was kind of like that scene in The Godfather where
Michael Corleone says, ‘Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!’
But now he’s so excited to be playing in this trio because this is just such a
perfect format for him to let his freak flag fly. It’s the perfect combination
of this kind of churchy, bluesy, funky, jazzy, rock, chicken-pickin’ thing, and
he fits right in.”
