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nedjelja, 01.12.2013.

Mike Stevens & Matt Andersen - Piggyback

Size: 126,4 MB
Time: 54:58
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2009
Styles: Acoustic Blues
Label: Busted Flat Records
Art: Front

01. I Wanna Be A Float Plane (4:29)
02. The Way You Move (3:35)
03. Hold Me With Both Hands (3:20)
04. Livin' In Sarnia (6:53)
05. Devil's Bride (4:05)
06. Going Home (3:23)
07. Storms Rollin' In (5:28)
08. Better Days (8:17)
09. I'll Tell You A Story (4:53)
10. Blue Celtic Rose (3:14)
11. Workin' My Way Home To My Girl (2:56)
12. You're A Best Seller Baby (4:21)


Every now and again you hear an artist that just pulls you up short, stops you dead in your tracks, like being on a top flight cutting horse that can stop on a dime, rollback and give you a nickel in change, Matt Andersen's voice did that to me the first time I heard it. He is the whole package and can play guitar, write relevant songs and present the songs in a way that will just bring you to a standstill you and make you listen up, just check this YouTube video. Now you are saying wait a minute this is a disc by Matt Andersen and Mike Stevens; well the disc came to me because of the effect that Matt had when I first heard him and started investigating who the guy is, which is what led me to this. And, so we are clear, Mike Stevens is a renowned harmonica virtuoso known mostly in Bluegrass and Experimental music circles more than holds up his end of the partnership on harmonica, songwriting and production. Just please forgive the excess on Matt as he is the one that drew me into this.

Mike Stevens and Matt Anderson wrote the twelve songs on this disc and there are some gems here that have a way of stretching the tension created between their respective instruments. There are times when you don't realize the sound is created by just guitar, both as a lead and rhythm instrument, and the harmonica wizardry of Mr. Stevens and the vocals of Mr. Andersen. The songs are in a variety of tempos that reflect in the emotions of each. There is the beautiful love song Hold Me With Both Hands, and the wonderful interplay of both instruments and voice in the Livin' In Sarnia that creates a pressure that is essential to the song. This is a disc that is going to fill you in every way; there are not often discs that fit together as a whole as well as this one does. It is going to put a smile on your face and have you tapping your toes if you're not actually up and dancing.


Piggyback



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nedjelja, 13.10.2013.

Matt Andersen & Mike Stevens - Piggyback

Styles: Acoustic Blues
Label: Bustedflat Records
Released: 2009
File: mp3 @320K/s
Size: 125,8 MB
Time: 54:55
Art: front + back

1. I Wanna Be A Float Plane - 4:29
2. The Way You Move - 3:35
3. Hold Me With Both Hands - 3:20
4. Livin' In Sarnia - 6:53
5. Devil's Bride - 4:04
6. Going Home - 3:22
7. Storms Rollin' In - 5:27
8. Better Days - 8:17
9. I'll Tell You A Story - 4:53
10. Blue Celtic Rose - 3:14
11. Workin' My Way Home To My Girl - 2:55
12. You're A Best Seller Baby - 4:20


Personnel:
Matt Andersen - guitars, vocals
Mike Stevens - harmonica

Notes: Every now and again you hear an artist that just pulls you up short, stops you dead in your tracks, like being on a top flight cutting horse that can stop on a dime, rollback and give you a nickel in change, Matt Andersen's voice did that to me the first time I heard it. He is the whole package and can play guitar, write relevant songs and present the songs in a way that will just bring you to a standstill you and make you listen up, just check this YouTube video. Now you are saying wait a minute this is a disc by Matt Andersen and Mike Stevens; well the disc came to me because of the effect that Matt had when I first heard him and started investigating who the guy is, which is what led me to this. And, so we are clear, Mike Stevens is a renowned harmonica virtuoso known mostly in Bluegrass and Experimental music circles more than holds up his end of the partnership on harmonica, songwriting and production. Just please forgive the excess on Matt as he is the one that drew me into this.

Mike Stevens and Matt Anderson wrote the twelve songs on this disc and there are some gems here that have a way of stretching the tension created between their respective instruments. There are times when you don't realize the sound is created by just guitar, both as a lead and rhythm instrument, and the harmonica wizardry of Mr. Stevens and the vocals of Mr. Andersen. The songs are in a variety of tempos that reflect in the emotions of each. There is the beautiful love song Hold Me With Both Hands, and the wonderful interplay of both instruments and voice in the Livin' In Sarnia that creates a pressure that is essential to the song. This is a disc that is going to fill you in every way; there are not often discs that fit together as a whole as well as this one does. It is going to put a smile on your face and have you tapping your toes if you're not actually up and dancing. ~ A review written for the Folk and Acoustic Music Exchange by Bob Gottlieb


Piggyback



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četvrtak, 19.09.2013.

Mike Stevens & Matt Andersen - Push Record: The Banff Sessions

Size: 112,6 MB
Time: 48:19
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2011
Styles: Acoustic Blues
Label: Borealis Records
Art: Front

01. Snow Plow (4:04)
02. She Loves It All (2:54)
03. Pawnshop (5:05)
04. The Mountain (3:28)
05. Last Letter Home (4:51)
06. Canadian Winter Blues (3:41)
07. Stay In The Race (4:42)
08. Little Things (4:00)
09. Share The Load (2:36)
10. That Girl Is Like A Traion (5:41)
11. Push Record (7:13)


The theme of Push Record is simplicity. The title track is meant to reflect how far Matt Andersen and Mike Stevens took this theme, the liner notes say: “The tune arrived in the rehearsal room so we just ‘Pushed Record.’” It’s just two talented musicians, one with a harmonica, and the other alternating between acoustic and hollow-body electric guitar.

Escaping all the technological frills that alter the recorded product in a studio, the artists boast that “All the recording was live off the floor—no headphones, no overdubs, no edits and no processing.”

The album was written in five days, recorded in one day in Banff, and mixed the next. It manages to catch some of the sparks that fly when two gifted artists and friends come together

The record is the second collaboration between Perth-Andover, New Brunswick’s beloved blues guitarist Andersen and Sarnia Ontario’s bluegrass harmonica expert Stevens. The songs, all original and alternating regularly between slow and fast, are a mixture of blues and folk, with Andersen and Stevens drawing on their respective backgrounds.

One of the best songs is “Pawnshop,” certainly the most convincing of the slow songs. The mournful tune then segues nicely into the very upbeat “The Mountain.” But, even though they were going low-tech, they didn’t exactly take it easy. Things got so heated in the studio that you can actually hear Andersen’s amp blowing up at the end of the last song. ~Review by Simcha Walfish


Push Record



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