the matthew show revisited, week four:
2012 was a hell of a year. For starters, after four years in a far eastern corner of the DFW megalopolis, I moved across to a far western corner of it, very near my hometown, and in fact just over the county line into my old stomping grounds.
Simultaneously, the band I'd haphazardly joined a few years prior, Fish Fry Bingo, was blowing up in tandem with the Texas craft beer movement, with which we seemed inextricably entwined. We traveled the state, playing ribbon cuttings and festivals, and opening for fairly significant names along the way.
On top of that, the matthew show got invited to attend Folk Alliance in Memphis. As part of the trip, we were able to record both at Sun and Ardent Studios, pillars of rock history.
I had slowly picked up a rather good live band in the couple of years before, and we were all fired up for the festival. This comes across on the Memphis album, which we threw down in barely two hours at Ardent.
It was an incredibly hectic time, and you can hear that in our energy on this track, a song which also illustrates the marketing problem I've always had with my music. Sometimes you get flowy introspection, and sometimes you get a somewhat profane hoedown. We contain multitudes.