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Drew Shoals
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Drew Shoals is an American drummer who has been a member of several notable musical acts. He is best known as the drummer of the San Francisco-based rock band Train. Shoals was born in Portland, Oregon. His mother put him in drum lessons at age five with Marty Higgins. In sixth grade at Whittaker Middle School he won the talent show on drums. He released important albums, played in the young soon-to-be Indie Jazz scene. Let his own bands…he was everywhere He would have been the next big thing if he hadn’t decided to first move to New York to work for The Fortune Society, an alternative to incarceration non-profit. He spent “A lot of time in Bronx criminal court as a court advocate representing a lot of first-time offenders, young adults who were looking at a year to five in prison for felony charges. He enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He was a brilliant Jazz drummer, drawing comparisons to Jack DeJohnette, but he also played Blues with Curtis Salgado, toured nationally with Tony Furtado…he played everything including Hip-Hop and country. 
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