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Artist: Matt The Electrician

Waxed - Record Review from Issue #46 July-Aug 2003

Matt The Electrician – Made For Working

By Jim Caligiuri

Some singer-songwriter types seem to spring into the world fully formed. Their first set of songs captures our imagination from the get-go and they draw comparisons to Dylan, Costello, Waits or Young. Others need a couple of tries to work out the kinks, taking time to grow and find their muse; then they spring their [...]

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Waxed - Record Review from Issue #18 Nov-Dec 1998

Matt The Electrician – Baseball Song

By Jim Caligiuri

Matt Sever really is a regular blue-collar type of guy. An electrician by day and a singer-songwriter at night, he’d been knocking around the Austin scene for a couple years when he struck up a friendship with up-and-coming young singer-songwriter Ana Egge. Like almost everyone else who has heard him, Egge was impressed with Matt’s [...]

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A Double Shot of Southern Comfort With Tom Petty and the Tontons
The Hangout Festival in Gulf Shores, Alabama, isn’t all about the headlining acts such as Kings of Leon and Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. The pride of Gainesville, Florida, Petty had sort of the home-field advantage Saturday night on the Hangout Stage, playing just one state over and practically a direct Interstate-10 shot from Heartbreakers… […]
CD Review - Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters "Just For Today"
Just For Today Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters It's Ronnie Earl's band, but he doesn't dominate it. Recorded live at a couple of venues in his home state of Massachusetts,the Stony Plains release is a seamless blend of jazz, soul and r&b by a band of seasoned vets comfortable enough with one another to have an intense musical conversation […]
Americana Boogie Music Releases for the week of May 21st... Jude Johnstone, Red Dirt Rangers, Cold Satellite, Augie Meyers
COLD SATELLITE (with JEFFREY FOUCAULT) Cavalcade (Signature Sounds) 2013 sophomore album from this band centered on the collaboration between songwriter Jeffrey Foucault and poet Lisa Olstein. Cavalcade both refines and concentrates the band's signature amalgam of Rock, Blues, and Country. Described by legendary music… […]
CD Review - Hans Theessink "Wishing Well"
Although Hans Theessink has made a name for himself with his acoustic blues guitar proficiency, he's the closest thing to Ry Cooder other than Cooder himself. On his last outing on Blue Groove, Theessink collaborated with long time Cooder vocalist Terry Evans for 2012's Delta Time, a soulful, gospel drenched electric blues excursion. This time out […]
A Tribute to The Doors Ray Manzarek 1939-2013
"You don't make music for immortality, you make music for the moment, capturing the sheer joy of being alive on planet Earth... Everybody should live it that way." Ray Manzarek In the summer of 1967 The Doors played the Anaheim Convention Center. I was 12 years old. I was completely transfixed by the band. Having an older musician brother […]
CD Review: The Clinton Gregory Bluegrass Band - Roots of My Raising (Melody Roundup, 2013)
Country artist's fine return to his bluegrass roots Clinton Gregory had a run of Top-100 country hits in the early '90s, but both his releases and commercial success became scarce by mid-decade. He returned last year with Too Much Ain't Enough, his first album in… […]