 After spending some time as a member of the Betty Carter Trio, he dropped out of the public eye for a number of years.In 1993, Shook and his wife, jazz singer Veronica Nunn, started their own record label, Dead Horse Records, which has released four recordings to date.Shook grew up in Olympia, WA, moved to New York City in the mid-1990s and currently resides in Woodstock, NY.