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About Me

The usual. Squandered youth, ambiguous adulthood. More to come when I've got it figured out. In the meantime, the basics:Bluegrass, Arizona, the '70's. High school: the Coldwater Flounders. Crazy Ed's Place. The Mighty Normal Brothers. College in Poughkeepsie, the early '80's... Pete Seeger, Uncle Normie and the Jackalopes. Later '80s... Two Week Notice, all over the West. '90s... Bryndle, all over the country. '00s... Warren Zevon, John McEuen, Van Dyke Parks, Jennifer Warnes, and a bunch of others. Session guy on some of your favorite albums. Composer fellow at 2008 Sundance Summer Labs. Want to know more? Gimme a shout.

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Member Since: 3/31/2007
Band Website: www.mattcartsonis.com
Band Members: MC and the elusive Al Gazzam
Influences: From Arlo to Zevon; from Van Dyke to Van Zandt. From Ry to Ray. But seriously, folks... Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie. Doc Watson. Blind Blake. Clarence White. Gatemouth Brown. Bob Wills. Earl Scruggs. Louis Jordan. Terry Allen. The Everly Bros; the Beatles. Gladys Knight. Tom Lehrer; Spike Jones. Uncle Normie. Gus Bob and Skabbo. Duke McVinnie. Esteban Jordan, dba Steve, "El Parche". Doug Sahm. Bajo sexto and norteÃ±o drumming. Guy Clark. Mike Condello. Joe Ely, Lloyd Maines and the memories of Jesse "Jake" Taylor and Tommy O. All alumni of The Normal Brothers and Yesterday's Wine. Dan "Igor" Glenn. Janet Gray, N.J. Bean and R. Cornelius. Austin, Texas; Phoenix, Arizona. And don't forget those guys in the first line. And the second.
Sounds Like: a certain je ne sais quoi.
Record Label: Labels? We don't need no stinkin' labels.

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