Matt Mason - Time's All I Got
This "Indiana Boy" keeps digging down into Dark Country.
Where has Matt Mason been? For the last few years since stepping away from the road, he’s been getting his life together! After several years of relentless touring and low paying gigs, Matt chose to work on his family. He spent a few years dropping single after single, throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks. During that time, his sleeper hit E became a RIAA certified gold single. He also shot through the roof on streaming, building a listener base that he never had when burning those road miles.
“The recoding process for this album took a very long time” he tells Texas Tailgate. “It’s because of me. I’m very sloth-like. We recorded the tracks well over a year ago. Raul Aguilar, who’s playing bass for me, had a hook up at Sound Kitchen in Franklin, Tennessee. We brought in Chuck Ward on guitar and Josh Mallard on drums. The tracks were cut in a day and I cut all the vocal tracks at home in my home studio. It was a long process. I spent time getting the vocals where I wanted them. Its the bittersweet of having a home studio, you don’t sing the songs and walk away. I had time to listen back and its easy to over critique yourself. It took longer but I think the finished product is better. I’m happy with these songs than a lot of stuff we’ve recorded in the past. Its always been quick fire stuff. We spent more time on this than anything else I’ve done in the past.”
Matt has been dropping singles up to this release, starting with Roll No More all the way to the latest You’re Gonna Kill Me. The Indiana born singer-songwriter has always been known for his gritty, alt-country with comparisons to Whitey Morgan, Jamey Johnson, or Cody Jinks. On this release, he leans into that association, digging deep into dark elements like the title track Time’s All I Got and Scars From The Flame, while reflecting on his slower paced family life on tracks like Friendly Fire which introduces his daughter Ella Mae Mason as an up-and-coming Country vocalist. Oh, and to celebrate that Gold Certification, he slips in a new stripped down version of E! TT