12.31.08
From the Archive #7: Matt Nathanson @ Recher Theatre
Matt Nathanson at Troubadour in West Hollywood, CA. (Photo by Jason Tang)
Matt Nathanson is one of those artists who have established a loyal fan base in the States, but haven’t really toured elsewhere. His live shows sound like so much fun that I hope we’ll get to see him in Europe too. Currently I’m just happy listening to the recordings on the Live Music Archive.
This one is recorded with a pair of small-sized microphones at Recher Theatre in Towson, MD. The sound quality is pretty good and the audience sounds fantastic. The recording is available in Flac, MP3, Ogg Vorbis, or can be played in the onsite player.
Matt Nathanson Live at Recher Theatre on 2008-10-03
The show starts with two songs off his latest album Some Mad Hope, they are Car Crash and Gone. Towards the end of the song Princess we get to the part that the audience just seems to love on Matt Nathanson shows: sing-a-longs with older hit songs. Here the audience is excited singing Rick Springfield’s ’80s hit Jessie’s Girl.
Still and Falling Apart are also from the latest album, that latter being Matt’s own favorite on the record. The cover of the ’90s hit Laid is another big sing-a-long. That’s the one Matt recorded for the movie American Wedding. This show turns out to be such a dirty one. Somebody has thrown a book of erotic stories up on stage, Matt picks it up and starts reading in between songs! Besides that, Matt always likes to joke a lot during the shows.
His song Amazing Again has a verse out of a popular song by R.E.M. Matt does a couple of songs solo, but for the rest of the show he is backed by his band. The audience sings surprisingly well on the AC/DC cover You Shook Me All Night Long. A new song Detroit Waves contains a sing-a-long of Kids of America. The encore has Come On Get Higher, which is currently my favorite song by Matt Nathanson. Then show ends with a nice sing-a-long, an older Matty song called Answering Machine. “I could fall alone if all if I could fall away”, that’s how it goes.
And there’s much more. I feel this was a show with many good moments. Recently a couple of videos of Matt Nathanson went up on ATT Blue Room. That’s three songs and an interview. Go on and and take a look.
Susi said,
December 31, 2008 at 1:36 am
He is soooo awesome. Last year I was on a cruise that he was playing on and we ran into him all alone at around 3am one night and he then showed us his cabin and then he ended up playing 80ies songs for us 4 girls for about an hour in our cabin. He is sooo nice – hopefully he will come to Europe one day on tour. I taped the CT show from Feb or something, I think it was uploaded to the archive as well!
Matt said,
December 31, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Wow, sounds so cool! I think I saw a picture somewhere
I found the show you taped, it’s here. I’ll check it out, thanks!
Why Can’t We Just Rewind? « Glimmer of Whimsy said,
May 7, 2009 at 9:37 pm
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