

THE WAY OF THE ZEN COWBOY: FIRESIDE STORIES FROM A GLOBETROTTING RHYTHMATIST His essays for Huffington Post can be read here: Huffington Post His essays for Riot Material can be read here: Riot Material His solo band, The Barrett Martin Group, has released 8 studio albums to date. His first book, “The Singing Earth,” was released in 2017, and his second book, “The Way Of The Zen Cowboy,” was released in 2019. In 2014 he was awarded the ASCAP Deems Taylor/Virgil Thompson Award for excellence in writing. His work can be heard on albums by REM, Queens Of The Stone Age, Mad Season, Screaming Trees, Walking Papers, Tuatara, Blues legend CeDell Davis, and recording sessions that range from the Peruvian Amazon, to Brazil, Cuba, Jerusalem, and the Alaskan Arctic.īarrett has taught at several universities in the United States, and has written essays for Riot Material and The Huffington Post.

He also holds a master’s degree in ethnology and linguistics, but is perhaps best known as the drummer for the rock bands Screaming Trees and Mad Season, as well as being a Latin Grammy-winning drummer/percussionist, composer, and producer who has performed on over 100 Rock, Blues, Jazz, and World music albums. BARRETT MARTIN has been studying Soto Zen for almost 25 years.
