INSIGHT Magazine October 2014 | Page 30

Music INSIGHT by Benjamin Nunnally M att Slowik plays cover songs, but he’s all about being his own man. “Unless you have something that nobody else has, you’ll fall into being another watered down band,” said Slowik, a local singer/guitarist who performs alongside lead guitarist Lee Jackson throughout Calhoun and Etowah Counties. The pair focus on alternative covers, pulling from Slowik’s love of 90s grunge and hard rock, with special focus on Alice in Chains and the band’s late singer Layne Staley. Part of the 30 d [