Michael Organ (drummer)
Encyclopedia
Michael Organ is an American rock 'n' roll drummer
best known for performing and recording with Sonny Landreth
and Henry Lee Summer
.
from 1983 to 1992 including work on all four of Summer's album releases for Epic Records
as well as the 1988 single Darlin' Danielle Don't, the 1989 top twenty single Hey Baby, and the 1993 single Ain't That Love.
Michael later performed and recorded with legendary slide guitarist Sonny Landreth
from 1995 to 2001 including work on the 2000 release Levee Town
on Sugar Hill Records. Levee Town
was re-released in April 2009 with additional tracks from the original recording sessions.
During the nineteen-nineties Michael lived in Nashville, TN working as a session musician and performing with such Roots rock
artists as Danny Flowers
, Tim Krekel
, Pat McLaughlin
, Gary Nicholson, Michael Henderson, Sheila Lawrence, and Tom Ovans. During that period Michael also recorded with Jimmy Buffett
, recorded and toured with the Amazing Rhythm Aces
, and performed with the legendary Bo Diddley
- as well as working with country music artists Lionel Cartwright
, Lee Roy Parnell
, Kevin Welch
, Highway 101
, Claudia Church
, and Deborah Allen
.
Michael also recorded and performed in the mid 90's with Canadian Polygram Records
rock recording artist Sue Medley
and the Toronto duo Lost & Profound
(Lisa Boudreau and Terry Tompkins) playing on their 1994 Polygram
release Memory Thief produced by Richard Bennett
.
In 1999 Michael began a music project with Creative Dance and Movement educator Margot Faught. Michael composed rhythmic tracks to be used in dance and movement classes which were compiled into the CD - Zuni Movement. Ms Faught utilized the CD in teaching seminars nationally and internationally including her work for the New York City Center
Project Dance program, as well as the New York arts consulting organization Together In Dance.
In 2004 Michael composed music for Current, a project by multidisciplinary performance group Susurrus that is still in performance.
Expanded Edition - LandFall
2000 Sonny Landreth - Levee Town
- Sugar Hill
1995 Sonny Landreth - Son of Native Stepson - Zoo/BMG EP
1996 Tom Ovans - Nuclear Sky - Demon
1995 Jimmy Buffett - Margaritaville Cafe: Late Night Gumbo
- Margaritaville
1994 Lost and Profound - Memory Thief - Polygram
1992 Sue Medley - I Am Alive - Polygram EP
1993 Henry Lee Summer - SlamDunk - Epic
1991 Henry Lee Summer - Way Past Midnight - Epic
1989 Henry Lee Summer - I've Got Everything - Epic
1988 Henry Lee Summer - Henry Lee Summer - Epic
Drums, Sabian
Cymbals, and Pro-Mark
drum sticks.
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
best known for performing and recording with Sonny Landreth
Sonny Landreth
Sonny Landreth is an American blues musician from southwest Louisiana who is especially known as a slide guitar player. He was born in Canton, Mississippi, but soon after, his family moved to Jackson, Mississippi, before settling in Lafayette, Louisiana...
and Henry Lee Summer
Henry Lee Summer
Henry Lee Summer is an American rock singer, songwriter, musician, and Record producer from Brazil, Indiana best known for his hit singles "I Wish I Had A Girl" and "Hey Baby".-Career:...
.
Career
Michael Organ played drums with pop/rock singer Henry Lee SummerHenry Lee Summer
Henry Lee Summer is an American rock singer, songwriter, musician, and Record producer from Brazil, Indiana best known for his hit singles "I Wish I Had A Girl" and "Hey Baby".-Career:...
from 1983 to 1992 including work on all four of Summer's album releases for Epic Records
Epic Records
Epic Records is an American record label, owned by Sony Music Entertainment. Though it was originally conceived as a jazz imprint, it has since expanded to represent various genres. L.A...
as well as the 1988 single Darlin' Danielle Don't, the 1989 top twenty single Hey Baby, and the 1993 single Ain't That Love.
Michael later performed and recorded with legendary slide guitarist Sonny Landreth
Sonny Landreth
Sonny Landreth is an American blues musician from southwest Louisiana who is especially known as a slide guitar player. He was born in Canton, Mississippi, but soon after, his family moved to Jackson, Mississippi, before settling in Lafayette, Louisiana...
from 1995 to 2001 including work on the 2000 release Levee Town
Levee Town
Levee Town is the 5th studio album by Sonny Landreth. Released on Sugar Hill Records Oct. 17, 2000 and re-released in an Expanded Edition on Landreth’s own LandFall Records April 21, 2009.-Overview:...
on Sugar Hill Records. Levee Town
Levee Town
Levee Town is the 5th studio album by Sonny Landreth. Released on Sugar Hill Records Oct. 17, 2000 and re-released in an Expanded Edition on Landreth’s own LandFall Records April 21, 2009.-Overview:...
was re-released in April 2009 with additional tracks from the original recording sessions.
During the nineteen-nineties Michael lived in Nashville, TN working as a session musician and performing with such Roots rock
Roots rock
Roots rock is a term now used to describe rock music that looks back to rock's origins in folk, blues and country music. It is particularly associated with the creation of hybrid sub-genres from the later 1960s including country rock and Southern rock, which have been seen as responses to the...
artists as Danny Flowers
Danny Flowers
Danny Flowers is an American songwriter, recording artist, and guitarist who is best known for his own songs that have been hits for other musicians...
, Tim Krekel
Tim Krekel
Tim Krekel was an American rock musician and country music songwriter from Louisville, Kentucky.- Early life :...
, Pat McLaughlin
Pat McLaughlin
Pat McLaughlin is a singer/songwriter based in Nashville, TN.He was raised in Waterloo, Iowa, but moved to San Francisco, California in the early 1970s. There McLaughlin began to write songs, playing alone at open mic nights and in the streets near the bay. After a brief stint in Boston, he moved...
, Gary Nicholson, Michael Henderson, Sheila Lawrence, and Tom Ovans. During that period Michael also recorded with Jimmy Buffett
Jimmy Buffett
James William "Jimmy" Buffett is a singer-songwriter, author, entrepreneur, and film producer. He is best known for his music, which often portrays an "island escapism" lifestyle. Together with his Coral Reefer Band, Buffett's musical hits include "Margaritaville" , and "Come Monday"...
, recorded and toured with the Amazing Rhythm Aces
Amazing Rhythm Aces
The Amazing Rhythm Aces are an American country rock group. The band has characterized their music as "American Music" or "Roots Music" — rock, country, blues, R&B, folk, reggae and Latino...
, and performed with the legendary Bo Diddley
Bo Diddley
Ellas Otha Bates , known by his stage name Bo Diddley, was an American rhythm and blues vocalist, guitarist, songwriter , and inventor...
- as well as working with country music artists Lionel Cartwright
Lionel Cartwright
Lionel Cartwright is an American country music artist. Between 1988 and 1992, Cartwright charted twelve singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts, including a Number One single in 1991's "Leap of Faith"...
, Lee Roy Parnell
Lee Roy Parnell
Lee Roy Parnell is an American country music artist. Active since 1990, he has recorded eight studio albums, and has charted more than twenty singles on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts...
, Kevin Welch
Kevin Welch
Kevin Welch is an American country music artist. He has charted five singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts and released eight studio albums...
, Highway 101
Highway 101
Highway 101 is an American country music band founded by Paulette Carlson , Jack Daniels , Curtis Stone and Scott "Cactus" Moser . With Carlson as lead vocalist, the band recorded three albums for Warner Bros. Records Nashville and charted ten consecutive Top Ten hits on the Hot Country Songs...
, Claudia Church
Claudia Church
Claudia Church is an American country singer whose hits include "What's the Matter With You Baby" and "Home in My Heart ".-Biography:...
, and Deborah Allen
Deborah Allen
Deborah Allen is an American country music singer. Since 1976, Allen has issued 12 albums and charted 14 singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart, most notably the 1983 crossover hit "Baby I Lied" which reached #4 on the country charts and #26 on the Billboard Hot 100. Allen has also...
.
Michael also recorded and performed in the mid 90's with Canadian Polygram Records
PolyGram
PolyGram was the name of the major label recording company started by Philips from as a holding company for its music interests in 1945. In 1999 it was sold to Seagram and merged into Universal Music Group.-Hollandsche Decca Distributie , 1929-1950:...
rock recording artist Sue Medley
Sue Medley
Sue Medley is a Canadian rock musician. She released her self-titled debut CD in 1990. She won a Juno Award in 1991 for Most Promising Female Vocalist.-The Early Years:...
and the Toronto duo Lost & Profound
Lost & Profound
Lost & Profound were a Canadian folk rock band in the early 1990s. Originally from Calgary, Alberta, where they began under the name The Psychedelic Folk Virgins, the band consisted of vocalist Lisa Boudreau and guitarist Terry Tompkins, with a varying roster of supporting musicians that included...
(Lisa Boudreau and Terry Tompkins) playing on their 1994 Polygram
PolyGram
PolyGram was the name of the major label recording company started by Philips from as a holding company for its music interests in 1945. In 1999 it was sold to Seagram and merged into Universal Music Group.-Hollandsche Decca Distributie , 1929-1950:...
release Memory Thief produced by Richard Bennett
Richard Bennett (guitarist)
Richard Bennett is a touring sideman, session veteran, and record producer. As a touring sideman, he performed with Neil Diamond for 17 years, and Mark Knopfler since 1994. As a session player, he has worked with artists ranging from Billy Joel and Barbra Streisand to Rodney Crowell and Vince Gill...
.
In 1999 Michael began a music project with Creative Dance and Movement educator Margot Faught. Michael composed rhythmic tracks to be used in dance and movement classes which were compiled into the CD - Zuni Movement. Ms Faught utilized the CD in teaching seminars nationally and internationally including her work for the New York City Center
New York City Center
New York City Center is a 2,750-seat Moorish Revival theater located at 131 West 55th Street between 6th and 7th Avenues in Manhattan, New York City. It is one block south of Carnegie Hall...
Project Dance program, as well as the New York arts consulting organization Together In Dance.
In 2004 Michael composed music for Current, a project by multidisciplinary performance group Susurrus that is still in performance.
Discography
2009 Sonny Landreth - Levee TownLevee Town
Levee Town is the 5th studio album by Sonny Landreth. Released on Sugar Hill Records Oct. 17, 2000 and re-released in an Expanded Edition on Landreth’s own LandFall Records April 21, 2009.-Overview:...
Expanded Edition - LandFall
2000 Sonny Landreth - Levee Town
Levee Town
Levee Town is the 5th studio album by Sonny Landreth. Released on Sugar Hill Records Oct. 17, 2000 and re-released in an Expanded Edition on Landreth’s own LandFall Records April 21, 2009.-Overview:...
- Sugar Hill
1995 Sonny Landreth - Son of Native Stepson - Zoo/BMG EP
1996 Tom Ovans - Nuclear Sky - Demon
1995 Jimmy Buffett - Margaritaville Cafe: Late Night Gumbo
Margaritaville Cafe: Late Night
Margaritaville Cafe: Late Night is the name of a series of three compilation albums by singers and bands that performed at various Margaritaville Cafes, commercial ventures of American singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett...
- Margaritaville
1994 Lost and Profound - Memory Thief - Polygram
1992 Sue Medley - I Am Alive - Polygram EP
1993 Henry Lee Summer - SlamDunk - Epic
1991 Henry Lee Summer - Way Past Midnight - Epic
1989 Henry Lee Summer - I've Got Everything - Epic
1988 Henry Lee Summer - Henry Lee Summer - Epic
Equipment
During his career Michael was an endorsing artist for Drum WorkshopDrum Workshop
Drum Workshop is a drum and hardware manufacturing company based in Oxnard, California. Their slogan is "The Drummer's Choice".-History:...
Drums, Sabian
Sabian (company)
Sabian is a Canadian cymbal designer and manufacturer. It is a leading manufacturer of cymbals along with other top companies such as Zildjian, Paiste, and Meinl.-History:...
Cymbals, and Pro-Mark
Pro-Mark
Pro-Mark is a Houston, Texas-based American drumstick company owned by founder Herb Brochstein. It is a widely known stick company generally played in drum set, drum and bugle corps and concert bands.-History:...
drum sticks.