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Shine Right Through the Dark 11 original new songs from Matt Watroba Produced by David Mosher & Matt Watroba Featuring: David Mosher, Katie Geddes, Theresa Smith & Robert Jones |
Although Michigan singer/songwriter/radio host Matt Watroba has been making music his entire life, Shine Right Through the Dark is his first collection of all original material. It took listening to thousands of songs and interviewing hundreds of songwriters for Matt to find his voice and, although a late bloomer, he has hit the ground running as they say. On Shine Right through the Dark you will find 11 well crafted tracks that reflect Matt’s sense of place (The Saint Of Warren Avenue, They Used to Play Baseball Here), his love of country music (This Ain’t My Town Anymore, Knoxville Shadow), and the folk music that defines who he is as a writer and community singer (Shine Right Through the Dark, Yellow Lace, Billy’s Bandana, Lifetime Love). Framed by tasteful acoustic arrangements and illuminated by some of the best vocalists in the business, Shine Right Through the Dark is the kind of CD you will find yourself playing over and over again.
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To purchase by mail:
Send a check for $17.50 ($15 + S & H) to:
Matt Watroba
PO Box 629
Hartland, MI 48353
To purchase or download on the web:
http://www.cdbaby.com/mattwatroba
Now on iTunes; coming soon to Amazon.com as well as most digital music websites.
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Jukebox Folk (LW8412) $17.50 ($15.00 plus $2.50 shipping) Send check made payable to Matt Watroba to the above address. |
Find out what happens when seasoned entertainer and performer Matt Watroba turns his attention to classic country music. You don’t have to dig far into the roots of American music to find the connection between country and folk. This recording is a celebration of that connection. Expect a lively set of acoustic renditions of some of our best loved country songs. Also included are four brand new original songs in the tradition. Get ready for bass slappin’ and string poppin’ covers of The Louvin Brothers, Hank Williams, The Delmore Brothers, Ernest Tubb, Woody Guthrie, Roger Miller, Webb Pierce, and many others. Great melodies, hot solos, and soaring vocal harmonies await you on this third CD release from Matt Watroba.
Produced by David Mosher
Featuring David Mosher and Katie Geddes
With special guests Peter "Madcat" Ruth, Mark & Carol Palms, Whit & Al Hill, and Theresa Smith
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The Best is Yet to Be (LW8312CD) $17.50 ($15.00 plus $2.50 shipping) Send check made payable to Matt Watroba to the above address. |
Just after turning 40, folk singer Matt Watroba suddenly came to the realization that, contrary to almost every message sent in our culture, there are some great things about getting older. In the middle of a concert at a senior center in his home state of Michigan, the idea for The Best is Yet to Be was born. "I began singing several songs about aging and was amazed at the audience response," Watroba recalls. "I was singing about things that people thought about but rarely verbalized. There are some great things about getting older!" As host of the popular public radio show "Folks Like Us," Watroba knew the power of stringing together songs around a theme. The result is a lively and touching collection of songs that will reach your heart, make you smile, and get you singing. Joining Watroba on The Best is Yet to Be are some of the finest folk musicians in the country, including Anne Hills and Josh White Jr.
Produced by Neil Woodward
With special guest musicians:
Neil Woodward - vocal, mandolin, dobro, guitar, banjo, autoharp, fiddle, harmonica, dulcimer, bones
Gary Weisenburg - vocal, bass, accordion
Peter "Madcat" Ruth - harmonica
Anna Huthmaker - cello
Jan Krist - vocal
Anne Hills - vocal
Katie Geddes - vocal
Josh White Jr. - vocal
Will & Barb Young - readings
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Read Marty Kohn's review from The Detroit Free Press.
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Matt Watroba Live At The Ark (LW831) $15.00 for CD, $10.00 for cassette, plus $2.50 shipping Send check made payable to Matt Watroba to the above address |
It was a cool night at the end of August 1997. Around 250 people gathered at The Ark in Ann Arbor, Michigan, to participate in the long awaited recording of folksinger and WDET host Matt Watroba's debut recording event. The pressure was on. The result? It was magical. The audience sang like a choir. The music and energy coming from the stage that night will be captured forever on compact disc and cassette: an hour of live music that will either serve as a wonderful introduction to folk music or a reminder of why you loved it in the first place.
Produced by Neil Woodward
With special guest musicians:
Neil Woodward - vocal, dobro, banjo, fiddle, harmonica, octave mandolin,
mandolin
Gary Weisenburg - vocal, bass
Jan Krist - vocal
Robert Jones - vocal and national steel guitar
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"Matt Watroba is one of those singers that songwriters live for. He has terrific taste in music, possesses an outstanding voice and the ability to not only perform beautifully, but to teach audiences the songs as he sings them. On this album he is surrounded by an angelic-voiced audience and top-flight side musicians and singers - -Jan Krist's voice in particular is stunning. If anyone wonders why folk concerts are becoming so popular again, they just need to listen to this album, and then they'll know why."
Christine Lavin
Singer/Songwriter
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"Warm, Lovely and Intimate... just a couple of telling words to get the feel of Matt Watroba’s Live at the Ark CD. After seeing Matt live I know the feeling that inspired his live audience to sing along. The simple, heartfelt feel of the music is real and needs no niche of its own."
Carey Carlson
Creator and Host of "Over Easy" 94.7 WCSX
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"If your love of folk music ever has a shaky day, listen to Matt Watroba Live at The Ark and you will be reunited with your passion. Without being smarmy, Live at The Ark is a tribute to the whole idea of singable songs, to their audiences, to others who perform them, to those who write them, to venues where they are played, to engineers who make them portable, to chair folders and string winders and fret sawyers and pick sellers all the way to the last guy sweeping out the capo peelings. If you want to hear what it sounds like to adore folk music, and at the same time boundlessly appreciate why it’s adorable, Matt Watroba is your man."
Lou and Peter Berryman
Singer/Songwriters
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"Matt Watroba breaks down the barrier between singer and audience ... sounds like a living room performance for a bunch of close friends."
Sing Out!
The Folksong Magazine
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