Interview with Michael Limnios, Blues Hall of Fame Ambassador

03.Jul.2015

MattyTWall: New Sound, Vintage Soul

One of Europe’s most prolific blues journalists and Blues Hall Of Fame Ambassador, Michael Limnios catches up with Matty for an interview….. Check it out!

http://blues.gr/profiles/blogs/interview-with-australian-blues-musician-mattyt-wall-ignite-his

The blues is music that traveled on trains and steamboats from the Mississippi Delta to the neon streets of Memphis, Chicago and St. Louis. For MattyTWall – a guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and bandleader – it is the supernatural sound that crossed the ocean to Perth, Australia to ignite his imagination and give power to his art. A young man with an old soul: Matty is connected to music with a wealth of history as he distills a diversity of genres into his own blues-influenced soul, jazz and rock signature. His points of references are wide; he has studied and played a spectrum of styles including flamenco, swing jazz and funk, and he attests to a love for “heavier things” in his youth, bands like Metallica and Sepultura among them. But he remembers how the musicians he admired would honor the blues masters who came before them. And following the trail of Eric Clapton and Stevie Ray Vaughn backwards, he was hooked. “I discovered Robert Johnson and he made the hair on the back of my neck stand up,” he remembers. “I got into the blues and have never gotten out of it.”

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