Sneak Peek Listen…..

Posted on March 19, 2012 by MK

Here’s the title track and another to boot…take a listen before it comes down

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Brian 7:55 pm on 3/19/12

New music from Matt King! It is a good day! Can’t wait for the CD to drop and find it’s permanent home in my truck.

Nice work Matt
BB 6:12 am on 3/20/12

This was well worth the wait. Thank you for always giving your fans a taste of your brilliance. Tulsa loves some Matt King!
Charles Neal 3:03 pm on 3/21/12

Matt,Luv ya man,The New music is Absolutely Amazing,Great Job.Cannot believe you did all of this downstairs,proves ya know the Game well Man,Awesome Dude,Very Proud to Know Ya!
Jeff Graves 5:09 pm on 3/29/12

2 Very good songs. Loved the stories they told and of course the way Matt told them!! I think I liked Apples and Orphans the best. Just hit a chord for me. Thanks for the previews Matt, perfect teasers to make us want the album that much more!! Can’t wait for the album to come out so I can wear it out, memorizing every song.
Don H 2:31 pm on 7/27/12

Can’t wait for the rest. Thanks for the appetizer. Also chuckled at your pedal board photo posted On Union Tube & Transistor. Rooting for another tour stop in Houston.
Cyrill 2:54 pm on 1/23/13

Matt,you is the man,dude!May’b someday you’ll came to Moscow,Russia..
MK 1:22 pm on 3/16/13

thank you! i certainly hope so…

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"Matt King writes and sings songs that are so achingly true to life that they make you want to cry, or ball up your fists, or burn something down. He writes and sings not in silly cliches about a South that no longer is, but about the scourges of my modern South, about meth and layoffs and men and women grabbing for their last hope. And somehow, it makes it a joy to hear. " -RICK BRAGG

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I grew up in the mountains of Hendersonville North Carolina. I come from a long line of pillars of the community........Hatfields to harlots, and a preacher or two. I had a great aunt that boarded up the windows of a house and set it on fire with her husband in it and a grandmother that shot her husband, so needless to say, I approach love with caution. There were the obligatory bootleggers in Dark Corner South Carolina and my Great grandpa B.T. Wright was a trainman in Eastern Kentucky, he also worked in the coal mines. Bluegrass music makes me homesick, and books make me want to never go back. I'm a walking contradiction,(like the man said) partly truth and partly fiction. I did a stint for a Atlantic Records in the 90's, rode on a big bus and then learned how to tour the country solo in a truck following someone else's big bus. I'd drive with one hand on the steering wheel and write songs on a pad beside me with the other. (NOT recommended!) Dylan, Guthrie, Cash...they all had their say and the last thing I wanted to try and do was be prophetic or profound. I just wanted to find a thread of honesty the same way they seemed to. I was the shortest, skinniest, most gullible and scared kid I knew, and as an adult, I felt more like a misfit than I did as a child. It was around 9-11 and all of the political/social fallout from Columbine that made me start thinking that just maybe we were on the brink as a society..... I now write and perform "Southern Friction" music, tour and write for film and television. Songwriting makes me try and say something honest and somehow connect to the world around me..sometimes it makes me do just the opposite and I swear that I'll never get out of my own head. I love hobos, knives, the 1930's, old books, and all things arcane or esoteric. Oh, and prime numbers are pretty compelling. ........ "I wear my soul like a hobo's skin, hard as leather with a toothless grin."

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