matt sparks
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play lo-fi play hi-fi  country blues
play lo-fi play hi-fi  death bed blues
I play simple striped down blues and old timey music. No frills no gimicks just me, guitar and sometimes a few instruments. I am 17 and have been at it for about a year. Mississippi Fred Mcdowell said it best "I don't play no rock and roll" influences include charley patton, dock boggs, will whitmore, blind willie johnson and a lot more. I am self taught in everything I do never had a lesson. Believe in the power of your ears kids!
Do you play live?
I play downtown on street corners on friday and saturday nights for drunk college kids. Taking their money, gettint to practice and getting heard is nice
How, do you think, does the internet (or mp3) change the music industry?
Makes things more availabe, makes it so people are subdued by the bullshit radio friendly music image anymore. We as a whole have gotten so far away from real music and into paying tons of money for perfect sounding recordings we have strayed away from the message that music is supposed to convey....raw emotion!
Would you sign a record contract with a major label?
If there was interest and I could mass produce some stuff I would. No radio play though, no mtv, no fame
Your influences?
music from the 20's and 30's since it was raw and pure and still mainly a form of entertainment because there wasn't much radio or anything like that shortly before recorded music was introduced so the musicians recording came from a backround of this is what we do and the music was brought up in small communities with poor folks for entertainment and learned by ear. the real deal
Favorite spot?
rural area
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