For those not in the know, Marc Ciprut is a guitarist, songwriter, and producer from New York. His music is influenced by the many different musicians he grew up listening to.

Everyone from Jimi Hendrix, Wes Montgomery, George Benson and Grant Green to Stevie Wonder, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin and Donny Hathaway. His music reflects these influences in his own unique way. It’s a mix of Blues, Rock and Jazz.

Indeed, Marc’s early years found him performing and recording in New York with everyone from Joss Stone and The Baha Men to Lenny White and Kenwood Denard.

In recent years he has turned his attention to writing and producing music for himself as well as various other artists.

His latest project is entitled Moonshine (out now) and is co-produced by Jimmy Haslip.

1. Moonshine
2. No Compromise
3. Cutie
4. Who Got Next?
5. No Mas Blues
6. No More Room
7. Slippery Slope
8. Funk You

This elegantly constructed and wholly impassioned new recording opens on the smart jazzy blues of the title track Moonshine and then brings us the propulsive blues guitar work of No Compromise, the low slung Cutie and the funky Who Got Next?

Along next is the free flowing No Mas Blues and that is in turn backed by the rhythmically funky, slight return of No More Room, the recording rounding out on the languishing, mid-tempo balladry of Slippery Slope, closing on the drum-fed, Hammond organ-hued, and aptly-titled Funk You.

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