https://thematchsellers.bandcamp.com
The MatchsellersThe Matchsellers are Warsaw, Indiana native Andrew Morris and Julie Bates of Kansas City, Missouri. The two met in Germany in 2012. Since then, they have collected influences from various regional styles of American folk music. Their work has delved into subjects as academic as “German-American Musical Exchange” and as wild as “Science Fiction Bluegrass”.The Wishful Thinkers' Hall of Fame, released 28 October 20221. Munot Heartbreak2. Badlands3. Downtown4. Dalton Foundry5. Shaky Motor6. Fall7. Time to Get a Straight Job8. The Parking Lot of My Mind9. The Texans Stole Oklahoma Music10. The Hot Mess11. Roann12. Victory BoundOver the course of the last decade, the Matchsellers have proven themselves to be one of the most creative and note-worthy Bluegrass groups to emerge from the Midwest. On their ambitious new record "The Wishful Thinker's Hall of Fame" (due out Oct 28, 2022), the group masterfully shows that “art for art's sake” has a place in the folk multiverse. The core musical partnership of Andrew Morris (Guitar/Vocals) and Julie Bates (Fiddle/Vocals) began when the two met in Leipzig, Germany. They were two lost American Midwesterners on Fulbright Scholarships working as Cultural Ambassadors to Germany. Now, nearly 10 years later, they are still lost. Unsure of anything in the real world, the duo creates elaborate musical universes that are even more absurd and tragic than our own. Or are they?The Wishful Thinker's Hall of Fame introduces the listener to a cast of characters, all of whom are inductees into an imaginary “Wishful Thinker's Hall of Fame”. There are Texans and Hoosiers, idiots and poor souls who are down-on-their-luck, lovers and leavers and a pile of tater tot nachos (see “The Hot Mess”). As a companion piece to the music, Andrew has created a pamphlet for the Hall of Fame class of 2022 induction ceremony. Each song is attached to a character, a Wishful Thinker, who is being inducted into the Hall of Fame. With a dream-like surrealism, the fantastic characters have sometimes mundane sometimes bizarre stories. Portraits of the characters were crowd sourced by Matchsellers fans and friends. There are QR-codes that take the listener to bizarre corners of the internet all related to the Wishful Thinkers. It's another wild musical journey the likes of which only the Matchsellers could dream up.Morris and Bates are joined on Mandolin by Brian McCarty (Greg Blake Band, the Bluegrass Missourians) and on Bass by Brandon Day (Kansas City Jazz Bassist). Recorded in just 2 days by engineer and musical powerhouse Clarke Wyatt, the quartet's newest album sounds as free, joyful and powerful as ever. The band is at the apex of its songwriting and musicianship.Willi Carlisle is a fan of The Wishful Thinker's Hall of Fame. He proclaims, “Morris' plaintive bawl and humor accentuates some of the best flatpicking in the biz (and it gets experimental here, too) while Bates gets a lot of good work done on the fiddle and folksy, mellow vocals on this new record. With vaudeville and virtuosity (and able production by Clarke Wyatt), this new offering pipes along with genre-hopping energy."The Matchsellers are a rare breed that is truly in it for the sake of the art and that's it. In a recent interview frontman Andrew Morris explained, “Sometimes, I feel like music is a kind of disease. It infects you and you can’t get rid of it. I really wish that something else had taken over me. Something where I could make a bit more money. Something that wasn’t so difficult. But I don’t really have a choice. You got to eat what the lunch lady gives you.”
Category: Arts & Entertainment
Country: United States of America (US)
Currency : USD
Platform: Bandcamp
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