Matthew Keeler
Matthew Keeler
Musical Antiquarian.
"...Just a guy who likes old, forgotten music..."
Back in 2012, I released an album and named it, Finding America.
("I didn't know it was lost!" a friend joked.) At any rate, America's infatuation with "the new" sometimes clouds her perception of the past. I cover a lot of ground, including English, Scottish, and Irish country dances, blues, spirituals, the old ballads, medieval bagpipe tunes, rags, jug band music, church revival songs, drinking songs, and medicine show frolics. This stuff is the musical bedrock of our nation! To forget or ignore it is to forget our roots! Rather than a musty history lesson, this is living, breathing music, existing in the now, even as it represents a world that is vanishing.
("I didn't know it was lost!" a friend joked.) At any rate, America's infatuation with "the new" sometimes clouds her perception of the past. I cover a lot of ground, including English, Scottish, and Irish country dances, blues, spirituals, the old ballads, medieval bagpipe tunes, rags, jug band music, church revival songs, drinking songs, and medicine show frolics. This stuff is the musical bedrock of our nation! To forget or ignore it is to forget our roots! Rather than a musty history lesson, this is living, breathing music, existing in the now, even as it represents a world that is vanishing.
Music-makingSomeone once told me, "surround yourself with what you want to be." If you play tunes with good traditional players it may humble you, but it will also teach you. I am continually faced with my limitations when I listen back, but hearing the dusty old recordings really drives me to practice harder. You just can't keep this a secret. I love it, and I am inviting you to pass it on! -Matt Keeler
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