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IAIN MATTHEWS - TINIEST WHAM NEW CD
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Located in: South Australia, Australia
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Item specifics
- Condition
- CD Grading
- Mint (M)
- Title
- TINIEST WHAM
- eBay Category
- CDs > Blues
- UPC
- Does not apply
- Artist
- Ian Matthews
- Format
- CD
- Release Year
- 2000
- Record Label
- Last Call
- Release Title
- Tiniest Wham (+ Bonus CD)
- Genre
- Folk
About this product
Product Identifiers
Record Label
Last Call
UPC
3596971712822
eBay Product ID (ePID)
19050184251
Product Key Features
Release Year
2000
Format
CD
Genre
Folk
Artist
Ian Matthews
Release Title
Tiniest Wham (+ Bonus CD)
Additional Product Features
Distribution
MSI Music Distribution
Country/Region of Manufacture
USA
Number of Discs
1
Additional information
Personnel: Iain Matthews (vocals, guitar); Jim Fogarty (guitar, mandolin); Bradley Kopp (guitar); Jude Webre (bass); Chris Searles (percussion). Iain Matthews shows his more acoustic side on TINIEST WHAM and includes the bonus CD, A LIVE WHAM. A Tiniest Wham finds Ian Matthews moving with assurance in the direction of acoustic pop. Matthews essentially eliminates the electric guitars that dominated his previous effort, Excerpts From Swan Lake, and sticks faithfully to his Epiphone Cortez acoustic. And yet the record does not sound "stripped down" or under-produced. If anything, A Tiniest Wham is more ambitiously -- and far more vibrantly -- produced than its predecessor. Matthews is joined by two highly talented fretsmiths, Bradley Kopp and Jim Fogarty, and the three of them apply a shiny multi-layered acoustic sheen to the songwriter's finely crafted tunes. The mix also benefits from an energetic use of percussion, bass, and mandolin. A major theme of the album is captured in a quotation from the Japanese artist Hokusai that is found inside the CD's jewel box: "I have been in love with painting ever since I became conscious of it at the age of six. I drew some pictures I thought fairly good when I was 50, but really, nothing I did before the age of 70 was of value at all." This concept of the ever growing and maturing artist is foreign to pop music, rooted as it is in youth culture and rebellion. But Matthews, a venerable rock veteran, nonetheless asserts that age and wisdom can enrich an artist's latter day efforts. "I'm Alive" is a sort of survival anthem that declares, "I don't know if you appreciate what my commitment's about/I'm a little shy of 'Surf's Up' but deeper than 'Twist and Shout.'" The record's most enjoyable track, "Funk and Fire," explores the crash and burn mentality that runs through rock history in lyrics that are replete with clever allusions to major music heroes. The lyrics of both songs reinforce the theme of the aging artist's growth and durability, but the strongest example of that phenomenon is the vitality of the album itself. With A Tiniest Wham, Matthews has forcefully demonstrated that he's only getting better as time goes on. ~ Evan Cater
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Stereo
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