create a unique-sounding
cover song.
“That’s why we get along,”
said Jackson. “He doesn’t
ask me to just be Slash on
something; we’re a jam
band of two acoustics, if
you venture off to do your
own thing and it sounds
good, then it’s all good.”
Slowik and Jackson intend
to continue playing covers
and eventually start working original songs into the set lists, though
Slowik is hesitant to simply announce the
tunes as originals and fire them off, hoping
to instead play them without announcing the
writer and gauging reactions. The music he’s
working on now, he says, still falls within the
alternative and hard rock genres, but lyrically
touches on more positive themes and ideas.
“I didn’t know how to play seven or eight years
ago, and now I’m playing with guys who have
been playing for years,” said Slowik.
“I want to get an original I’m proud enough
of to show off, and I’m not going to even tell
people that it’s ours. If they like it, they’ll let us
know,” he continued with a grin.
Matt & Lee are playing at The Turn at Cane
Creek Oct. 10, the EMS tent at Talladega Superspeedway Oct. 17 and at Wise Guys Pizza
in Alexandria on Halloween night, Oct. 31.
Lee is a guitar teacher at Baker Music on Broad
Street in Gadsden, and can be contacted for
guitar lessons at 256-546-4038. ✤
Visit facebook.com/pages/Matt-Slowik-Music/1389808081290295
to find up to the minute updates directly from Matt.
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