Shack-man is the fourth album by experimental jazz fusion trio Medeski Martin & Wood, released in 1996.
[1][6][7] It was widely considered their commercial breakthrough, peaking at #7 on the Billboard Contemporary Jazz Albums chart.
[8] The album was recorded in an isolated shack in Hawaii, with power supplied by solar energy and generators.
[9] AllMusic called the album "the best example to date of the trio's cerebral fusion of soul-jazz, hip-hop, and post-punk worldbeat.
"[11] The Cleveland Scene wrote that the group "made it cool to groove again with 1996's Shack Man, a Hammond-hammered Phish-lot mainstay that opened the door for instrumental improv groups like Soulive and Particle.