Album Notes

HOLLERIN’- MATT SOUTHON - AUSTRALIAN VERANDAH BLUES Matt’s music is inspired by THE passion and fire of old style bluesman the likes of Son House and Charlie Patton. With a beat up slide guitar and a hollering singing style, Matt can’t hide the fact that his love of the old blues has combined with a love of harder stuff like the Ramones or the Dead Kennedy’s, and modern legends like Jeff Lang and Geoff Achison; resulting in a 100 mile an hour crash or crash through performance style. Living on a bush property near Bega, Australia; Matt’s verandah has played home to much of his raucous stomping about, with his style developing through absolutely no need to turn it down! Matt has performed at the Bruthen, Narooma and Goulburn Blues Festivals and supported the likes of Glenn Terry and the Blues Bombers and Lloyd Spiegel. Matt has produced two EP’s. ‘Stone Cabin Sessions’ a six track EP completely recorded in the stone cabin by Matt (and very lo tech); and this one, the recently completed ‘Hollerin!’ which contains eight original tracks and was recorded at Pirate Studios in about seven hours. Both EP’s are attempts to capture the energy of Matts live performance style.