From the mountains of North Carolina comes Matt King; Blue Grass in his heart, and Rock 'n Roll in his throat. With harlots, coal miners turned bootlegger, and murderous scorned women in his family tree (As well as a Gospel singing family), Matt cut his teeth touring under a major label; learning the ropes to break away solo.
Matt's music has a country sensibility lit up with a rock flare. Mixed with lyrics rooted in traditional mountain style blue grass and country are hard beats, radical instrumentation, and a flamboyant sense of showmanship. However, his art as a song writer never loses heart; well illustrated on his album Rube in songs like "American Dream" -the woes of a worker and the broken promise of a future, "Shanty Town" - beating back the trap of the small town monster, or the reflective "Graveyard Shift". Take a spin with "Cursing the Ohio"; the tale of country love gone wrong.
Much like Alabama 3 did for Gospel style Soul fused with Techno, Matt King brings to the country rock fusion. I found that once I had this disc spinning, I didn't want to... no, I couldn't... make it stop. This is one of those albums that gets inside you and gets everything rocking... HARD. There are rocking songs, soulful songs, and fun songs.
"Songwriting forces me to try and connect to the world," says Matt, "most of the time it has the opposite effect and I swear that I'll never get out of my own head."
IronChuck gives Rube, by Matt King SIX out of a possible five shots of whiskey!
Matt King's Rube is available from Montage Music.
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