the matthew show revisited: week six
Between texas and february, I started periodically posting the Acoustic Surprise, usually a cover. In the early days of digital music, this was a nice incentive to get people to visit the website and remember I existed. Some of my earliest musical memories are of Simon and Garfunkel on the turntable, pops and scratches and all, and the fact that this one also stoked my budding anglophilia made it stick permanently in my subconscious. I'm not sure where the extra intro and outro bits came from, but once I put them on there, now I can't really play it any other way. In 2021, I collected a bunch of Acoustic Surprises along with other covers that I've done for various projects and put them on the Variations album. Of course I couldn't leave Paul & Artie G out.
Enjoy.