{"id":53135,"date":"2023-10-24T06:35:58","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T10:35:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=53135"},"modified":"2023-10-24T06:35:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T10:35:59","slug":"on-stage-extra-matt-andersen-at-city-winery-for-rare-tuesday-night-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=53135","title":{"rendered":"On Stage Extra: Matt Andersen at City Winery for rare Tuesday night show"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Denny Dyroff,<\/strong> Entertainment Editor, The Times<\/em><\/p>\n

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Matt Andersen<\/p><\/div>\n

Mondays and Tuesdays are tough days for live music shows.<\/p>\n

Some venues such as Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center in West Chester, Jamey\u2019s House of Music in Lansdowne and Kennett Flash rarely have shows during the early part of the week.<\/p>\n

Fans frequently spend Mondays recuperating from the weekend and Tuesdays getting ready for the rest of the week.<\/p>\n

They are not ideal days for a concert \u2013 especially now with the advent of colder weather.<\/p>\n

But that does not mean there aren\u2019t good shows on the early week schedule.<\/p>\n

This week, for example, there is a very appealing show\u00a0at City Winery (990 Filbert Street, Philadelphia, www.citywinery.com<\/a>) when the Center City venue hosts a concert on October 24 featuring Matt Andersen with Adam Baldwin as the opening act.<\/p>\n

A powerhouse performer with a giant, soul-filled voice and commanding stage presence, Andersen has built a formidable following the old-fashioned way \u2014 touring worldwide and letting his audiences spread the good word of his righteous tunes. As a result, he has amassed more than 18 million views on YouTube.<\/p>\n

In addition to headlining major festivals, clubs and theatres throughout North America, Europe and Australia, Andersen has shared the stage and toured with Bo Diddley, Buddy Guy, Greg Allman, Tedeschi Trucks Band, Randy Bachman, Little Feat, Jonny Lang, Serena Ryder, and more.<\/p>\n

The Nova Scotia resident won the 2013 and 2016 European Blues Award for Best Solo\/Acoustic Act, three Maple Blues Awards in 2012, and was the first ever Canadian to take home top honors in the solo\/duo category at the 2010 International Blues Challenge in Memphis.<\/p>\n

Following numerous sold-out shows in his native Canada, a spring tour with Tab Benoit, and a summer run with Devon Allman and Donavon Frankenreiter, Andersen\u00a0is planning a fall U.S. headline tour, supporting his latest album,\u00a0\u201cThe Big Bottle of Joy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Released earlier this year,\u00a0\u201cThe Big Bottle of Joy\u201d\u00a0is a collection of 12 exhilarating songs that pulse with blues, rock, Americana, and gospel energy. Andersen\u2019s masterful vocals are at their best, striking the perfect balance of unbridled power and soulful quietness. The album has earned raves for the accomplished musician and lyricist.<\/p>\n

This solo tour will feature Anderson performing an acoustic show. Ahead of the dates, Andersen\u00a0is releasing a video for \u201cShoes,\u201d the romantic album closing track about finding balance in a relationship when partners are sadly out of sync.<\/p>\n

\u201cI recorded the new album in Halifax at the end of the pandemic,\u201d said Andersen, during a recent phone interview from his home in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat band came from the pandemic. It was all musicians from Nova Scotia \u2013 all from Halifax.\u201d<\/p>\n

Andersen enjoyed making music with his fellow Haligonians.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a lot of fun \u2013 like sitting around a supper table,\u201d said Andersen \u201cBut I don\u2019t bring any of them on the road because of the cost of touring.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe album was recorded in the spring of 2021, but some of the songs were older. I made it at Sonic Temple in Halifax. Then, it sat on the shelf for a long time because of COVID \u2013 because I couldn\u2019t tour during the pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Halifax connection had an effect on the songs.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was the first time I went into recording knowing who the musicians would be,\u201d said Andersen. \u201cI wrote for them specifically. It definitely gave me a different approach to writing.<\/p>\n

\u201cI toured the album this spring in Canada with my band. But I didn\u2019t take the band to the states. It\u2019s the same with this tour. This is just me and my guitar.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been lucky with my career in the U.S. I\u2019ve gotten certain pockets where I\u2019ve done great. Also, with this kind of music, you don\u2019t need airplay.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had another album out prior to this \u2013 a solo album. I recorded it after the band album, but it came out before the band album was released. It was my first solo recording in 15-20 years \u2013 and my first album of all originals. I recorded it at my home studio, and I came out late spring 2022.\u201d<\/p>\n

Andersen is known as one of Canada\u2019s hardest-working musicians, averaging around 200 live performances per year. Specializing in an earthy blend of blue-collar folk, electric blues, and roots rock, the New Brunswick native began his musical career in 2002 with the group Flat Top. He issued his solo debut, \u201cSecond Time Around,\u201d in 2007, followed in 2008 by \u201cSomething in Between\u201d and in 2009 by \u201cPiggyback,\u201d the latter of which was a collaboration with acclaimed harmonica player\u00a0Mike Stevens.<\/p>\n

That same year he issued his first concert album, \u201cLive from the Phoenix Theatre,\u201d and later his first collection of holiday music, \u201cChristmas Time.\u201d A pair of studio albums, \u201cPush Record\u201d (with\u00a0Mike Stevens) and \u201cCoal Miner Blues,\u201d followed in 2011.<\/p>\n

\u201cWeightless,\u201d which was produced by Los Lobos\u2019 Steve Berlin, was released in 2014 and was his debut long-player for the True North label. It earned\u00a0Andersen\u00a0a Juno nomination for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year. For his follow-up, he traveled to New York, working with producer\u00a0Commissioner Gordon\u00a0(Winehouse, Joss) to record 2016\u2019s \u201cHonest Man.\u201d The concert album \u201cLive at Olympic Hall\u201d appeared in 2018, and featured\u00a0Andersen\u00a0backed by his band\u00a0the Mellotones\u00a0at the historic Halifax, Nova Scotia venue.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got into the blues just from hearing it,\u201d said Andersen. \u201cMy brother had Eric Clapton\u2019s \u2018Unplugged\u2019 album and that got me started with an interest in blues.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen, I got into musicians like B.B. King, Sonny Terry and Roy Buchanan. I also liked Creedence Clearwater Revival ands the Allman Brothers because they were influenced by the blues. As time went on, I got more into acoustic folk and blues. I grew up with an acoustic guitar. My parents wouldn\u2019t get me an electric guitar.\u201d<\/p>\n

As a result, Andersen is equally comfortable playing a solo acoustic set or performing with a band.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just finished a full band tour in Canada, so I played electric guitar,\u201d said Andersen. \u201cWhen I play the states, it\u2019s mostly solo. When you\u2019re playing small rooms, it\u2019s too expensive to tour with a band.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been lucky with my career in the U.S. I\u2019ve gotten certain pockets where I\u2019ve done great. Also, with this kind of music, you don\u2019t need airplay.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the opening act on this tour, I\u2019m bringing one of the best dudes I know, Adam Baldwin. He\u2019s a great singer-songwriter from Nova Scotia. \u00a0\u00a0I can\u2019t wait for you all to hear him.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Adam Baldwin<\/p><\/div>\n

Baldwin is a Canadian\u00a0indie rock\u00a0singer-songwriter based in\u00a0Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.\u00a0In addition to his solo work, Baldwin currently performs supporting fellow Dartmouth native Matt Mays.<\/p>\n

Baldwin has been a mainstay of the Atlantic Canada music scene for over a decade and he\u2019s making his first solo tour of the U.S. with Andersen.<\/p>\n

With his sophomore full-length, \u201cConcertos & Serenades,\u201d Baldwin, who was born and raised in Nova Scotia, offers an East Coast testimony that challenges the typical tourism marketing gloss.<\/p>\n

Through eight masterful yarns, the songwriter bears witness and pays tribute to a tradition of desperation: sinners and losers, perpetual failures, and down-and-out phantoms that haunt his home\u2019s coastlines and back roads — without a passing judgement. Some of the tales happened, some didn\u2019t, and most walk a tightrope between truth and fiction.<\/p>\n

Starting as a member of rock combo Gloryhound before joining Matt Mays & El Torpedo in 2009, Baldwin\u2019s own music has continued to evolve since his award winning self-titled solo debut EP in 2013. In 2016 Baldwin released his first full length album, \u201cNo Telling When (Precisely Nineteen Eight-Five),\u201d featuring the singles \u201cDaylight\u201d and \u201cAnytime.\u201d In 2019 he released the follow up, \u201cNo Rest for the Wicked,\u201d which featured \u201cSalvation\u201d and \u201cDark Beside the Dawn.\u201d<\/p>\n

In March 2020, with in-person performances impossible due to COVID-19, Baldwin launched his Cross-Country Chin Up concert series, almost every Friday evening on YouTube. In addition to making this weekly opportunity to connect virtually with fans, he also raised funds for the Mental Health Foundation of Nova Scotia, Red Cross Stronger Together Nova Scotia Fund, RCMP Fallen Officer Fund, and the Black Cultural Society for Nova Scotia. The online concert series also produced two digital EPs — \u201cChin Up Sessions,\u201d (originals) and \u201cSongs for the Parlour\u201d (covers).<\/p>\n

\u201cConcertos & Serenades\u201d is Baldwin\u2019s most complete work so far.<\/p>\n

According to Baldwin, \u201cI feel like a lot of these stories just kinda flew in on the west wind off Porter’s Lake or off the Atlantic Ocean here. And there’s a lot of stories to be told.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust from livin’ out here, some of the people you meet. There are some hard, hard men and women out here who worked their asses off out on the ocean for decades. They’re different types of people, man, and they\u2019ve got different stories to tell, and I felt like they’d been left out of our song writing tradition for a few years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Video link for Matt Andersen \u2013 https:\/\/youtu.be\/l817S1hnMnM<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Video link for Adam Baldwin \u2013 https:\/\/youtu.be\/Fxxi57jQWUM<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The show at City Winery on October 24 will start at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n

Tickets are $20, $25 and $30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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