Troyka - Troyka (Out of Print)
Matt Sweeney December 23, 2024
Self-titled LP. Crude, menacing and savagely rocking Canadian raw power trio with unhinged vocal nastiness. Another gem brought forward via Endless Boogie’s Jesper Ecklow.
Matt Sweeney December 23, 2024
Self-titled LP. Crude, menacing and savagely rocking Canadian raw power trio with unhinged vocal nastiness. Another gem brought forward via Endless Boogie’s Jesper Ecklow.
Matt Sweeney is a record producer and the host of the popular music series “Guitar Moves”. He is a member of The Hard Quartet (debut album out Fall of 2024). Rick reached out to Matt Sweeney in 2005 after hearing his “Superwolf” album, and invited him to play on albums by Johnny Cash, Neil Diamond, Adele and many others. Follow Matt Sweeney via Instagram.
Terry Reid - Silver White Light (Live at the Wight 1970) (Out of Print)
Matt Sweeney November 18, 2024
This raw “off the board” tape of British Rock’s finest singer features astonishing interplay between Reid and his band, and Terry’s ripping and flowing singing and guitar work is just staggering. The recording shows why Terry Reid was Aretha Franklin’s favorite rock singer. I wonder if this is the kind of band interplay Deadheads think they are hearing at Dead shows. Only one track from this can be heard online and that is a shame.
Matt Sweeney November 18, 2024
This raw “off the board” tape of British Rock’s finest singer features astonishing interplay between Reid and his band, and Terry’s ripping and flowing singing and guitar work is just staggering. The recording shows why Terry Reid was Aretha Franklin’s favorite rock singer. I wonder if this is the kind of band interplay Deadheads think they are hearing at Dead shows. Only one track from this can be heard online and that is a shame.
Matt Sweeney is a record producer and the host of the popular music series “Guitar Moves”. He is a member of The Hard Quartet (debut album out Fall of 2024). Rick reached out to Matt Sweeney in 2005 after hearing his “Superwolf” album, and invited him to play on albums by Johnny Cash, Neil Diamond, Adele and many others. Follow Matt Sweeney via Instagram.
The Outsiders - The Golden Years Of Dutch Pop Music (A&B Sides And More) (Out of Print)
Matt Sweeney October 21, 2024
Universal released this huge double vinyl collection of the Netherlands’ greatest rock band; it’s perfect and it’s impossible to find this album streaming. Led by street genius Wally Tax, The Outsiders burned bright and burned out in 1969 and were utterly original: sketchy, violent and rocking, sounding like The Fall sometimes in its danceable menace, with smart fucked-up lyrics. Robert Pollard turned me on to this band, he loves them.
Matt Sweeney October 21, 2024
Universal released this huge double vinyl collection of the Netherlands’ greatest rock band; it’s perfect and it’s impossible to find this album streaming. Led by street genius Wally Tax, The Outsiders burned bright and burned out in 1969 and were utterly original: sketchy, violent and rocking, sounding like The Fall sometimes in its danceable menace, with smart fucked-up lyrics. Robert Pollard turned me on to this band, he loves them.
Matt Sweeney is a record producer and the host of the popular music series “Guitar Moves”. He is a member of The Hard Quartet (debut album out Fall of 2024). Rick reached out to Matt Sweeney in 2005 after hearing his “Superwolf” album, and invited him to play on albums by Johnny Cash, Neil Diamond, Adele and many others. Follow Matt Sweeney via Instagram.
Bob Seger - Brand New Morning (Out of Print)
Matt Sweeney September 16, 2024
Ultra raw loner Seger on acoustic guitar and piano peeling off stunning spooky tunes, with melodies and modes you haven’t heard from him. From 1971. Acid comedown vybes for days. Title track is one of his catchiest and most haunting songs. That voice!!
Matt Sweeney September 16, 2024
Ultra raw loner Seger on acoustic guitar and piano peeling off stunning spooky tunes, with melodies and modes you haven’t heard from him. From 1971. Acid comedown vybes for days. Title track is one of his catchiest and most haunting songs. That voice!!
Matt Sweeney is a record producer and the host of the popular music series “Guitar Moves”. He is a member of The Hard Quartet (debut album out Fall of 2024). Rick reached out to Matt Sweeney in 2005 after hearing his “Superwolf” album, and invited him to play on albums by Johnny Cash, Neil Diamond, Adele and many others. Follow Matt Sweeney via Instagram.
Hurriganes - Sixteen Golden Greats (Out of Print)
Matt Sweeney August 19, 2024
Finnish grease rock gods, huge in their home country and nowhere really else: astonishingly pre-Ramones, with a drummer singing in rock n roll nonsense language, crude propulsive nasty and joyful and badass. This record and so many other life-changing jamz were presented to me by savage genius Jesper Eklow of Endless Boogie.
Matt Sweeney August 19, 2024
Finnish grease rock gods, huge in their home country and nowhere really else: astonishingly pre-Ramones, with a drummer singing in rock n roll nonsense language, crude propulsive nasty and joyful and badass. This record and so many other life-changing jamz were presented to me by savage genius Jesper Eklow of Endless Boogie.
Matt Sweeney is a record producer and the host of the popular music series “Guitar Moves”. He is a member of The Hard Quartet (debut album out Fall of 2024). Rick reached out to Matt Sweeney in 2005 after hearing his “Superwolf” album, and invited him to play on albums by Johnny Cash, Neil Diamond, Adele and many others. Follow Matt Sweeney via Instagram.
Terry Stamp - Fatsticks (Out of Print)
Matt Sweeney July 15, 2024
Terry Stamp’s early 70’s band Third War is often cited as a primary influence on punk rock. Then Stamp made this impossibly great album with the best band imaginable, quit the music biz and moved to LA, where he still lives.
Matt Sweeney July 15, 2024
Terry Stamp’s early 70’s band Third War is often cited as a primary influence on punk rock. Then Stamp made this impossibly great album with the best band imaginable, quit the music biz and moved to LA, where he still lives.
Matt Sweeney is a record producer and the host of the popular music series “Guitar Moves”. He is a member of The Hard Quartet (debut album out Fall of 2024). Rick reached out to Matt Sweeney in 2005 after hearing his “Superwolf” album, and invited him to play on albums by Johnny Cash, Neil Diamond, Adele and many others. Follow Matt Sweeney via Instagram.
Whisky David - Rusty Rock (Out of Print)
Matt Sweeney June 17, 2024
Paul Major, frontman of Endless Boogie, turned me on this astonishing album. Impossibly, it sounds as good as it looks.
Matt Sweeney June 17, 2024
Paul Major, frontman of Endless Boogie, turned me on this astonishing album. Impossibly, it sounds as good as it looks.
Matt Sweeney is a record producer and the host of the popular music series “Guitar Moves”. He is a member of The Hard Quartet (debut album out Fall of 2024). Rick reached out to Matt Sweeney in 2005 after hearing his “Superwolf” album, and invited him to play on albums by Johnny Cash, Neil Diamond, Adele and many others. Follow Matt Sweeney via Instagram.
Lobby Loyde - Play with George Guitar (Out of Print)
Matt Sweeney May 20, 2024
Australian rock legend Lobby Loyd is sorta like Lemmy, Neil Young, and Malcolm Young and this album is him on a ton of acid. His band Coloured Balls’ essential 1973 album is “Ball Power.” A mint copy of the vinyl cost like $500 in the ‘90’s.
Matt Sweeney May 20, 2024
Australian rock legend Lobby Loyd is sorta like Lemmy, Neil Young, and Malcolm Young and this album is him on a ton of acid. His band Coloured Balls’ essential 1973 album is “Ball Power.” A mint copy of the vinyl cost like $500 in the ‘90’s.
Matt Sweeney is a record producer and the host of the popular music series “Guitar Moves”. He is a member of The Hard Quartet (debut album out Fall of 2024). Rick reached out to Matt Sweeney in 2005 after hearing his “Superwolf” album, and invited him to play on albums by Johnny Cash, Neil Diamond, Adele and many others. Follow Matt Sweeney via Instagram.
Jimmy Campbell - Half-Baked (Out of Print)
Matt Sweeney March 18, 2024
Jimmy Campbell - Half-Baked
Imagine a guy from Liverpool about the same age as the Beatles just cooler and more talented writing songs from an intensely bummed-out point of view and recording them raw and tuff. Terrifying album cover.
Matt Sweeney April 15, 2024
Imagine a guy from Liverpool about the same age as the Beatles just cooler and more talented writing songs from an intensely bummed-out point of view and recording them raw and tuff. Terrifying album cover.
A note: I’m not a record collector or an expert - if hard copies of these records are now being made it’s my oversight. As far as I know they are out of print, and shouldn’t be.
Matt Sweeney is a record producer and the host of the popular music series “Guitar Moves”. He is a member of The Hard Quartet (debut album out Fall of 2024). Rick Rubin reached out to Matt Sweeney in 2005 after hearing his guitar work and composing on the “Superwolf” album, and featured his playing on albums by Johnny Cash, Neil Diamond, Adele and many others. Follow Matt Sweeney via Instagram.
Jack Clement - All I Want To Do In Life (Out of Print)
Matt Sweeney March 18, 2024
Jack Clement was a chief architect of both Rock and Roll and Country music and made genre-defining records with Johnny Cash, John Prine, Jerry Lee Lewis, Charlie Pride, and Townes Van Zandt. For some reason, he allowed his perfect lone 70’s solo album to out of print and this has yet to be rectified.
Matt Sweeney March 18, 2024
Jack Clement was a chief architect of both Rock and Roll and Country music and made genre-defining records with Johnny Cash, John Prine, Jerry Lee Lewis, Charlie Pride, and Townes Van Zandt. For some reason, he allowed his perfect lone 70’s solo album to out of print and this has yet to be rectified.
Matt Sweeney is a record producer and the host of the popular music series “Guitar Moves”. He is a member of The Hard Quartet (debut album out Fall of 2024). Rick reached out to Matt Sweeney in 2005 after hearing his “Superwolf” album, and invited him to play on albums by Johnny Cash, Neil Diamond, Adele and many others. Follow Matt Sweeney via Instagram.