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Take It All In by Matt Stillwell
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fave it Traditional Country | Bluegrass
12 tracks | 47 minutes
Released Dec 2005
on Matt Stillwell
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:09 Take It All In lyrics BUY MP3 04:09 Take It All In lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:09 Take It All In
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:45 On My Own lyrics BUY MP3 03:45 On My Own lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:45 On My Own
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:20 Go Away lyrics BUY MP3 03:20 Go Away lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:20 Go Away
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- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:58 Tryin' To Get To Heaven lyrics BUY MP3 03:58 Tryin' To Get To Heaven lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:58 Tryin' To Get To Heaven
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:09 The Motions lyrics BUY MP3 04:09 The Motions lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:09 The Motions
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:44 Moonshine lyrics BUY MP3 03:44 Moonshine lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:44 Moonshine
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:28 Good Hands lyrics BUY MP3 04:28 Good Hands lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:28 Good Hands
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 04:12 Surrender lyrics BUY MP3 04:12 Surrender lyrics "GIFT MP3" 04:12 Surrender
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:57 What Happened lyrics BUY MP3 03:57 What Happened lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:57 What Happened
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:59 Heroes And Men lyrics BUY MP3 03:59 Heroes And Men lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:59 Heroes And Men
- sample lyrics "DOWNLOAD" 03:42 What I Do lyrics FREE 03:42 What I Do lyrics "GIFT MP3" 03:42 What I Do
Original, Fresh, and Real Country/Bluegrass Music.
Editorial review
Used to be, one could depend on a basic dichotomy in popular music of nearly any genre, that the more mainstream, conventional stuff would turn up on the major labels, while independents tended to issue the more left-of-center or otherwise unusual material. The decentralization of the business, in which every artist of whatever size has a website and the means for putting out his own music, has scrambled the old patterns, however. Presume, for example, that a country singer/songwriter/guitarist goes to Nashville and, despite conforming to current styles in country music, doesn't earn the favor of one of the ever-fewer major labels on one of the ever-shrinking rosters making music for ever-more-restrictive radio playlists. Now, that musician doesn't necessarily have to head home or take a job at a gas station. He can play gigs, save his money, and put out his own album. Enter Matt Stillwell, a North Carolina native and Nashville resident who plays more than a dozen gigs a month in the mid-South, building up a following and his bank account in order to finance this, his first album, on his own Still 7 Records label. In the disc's acknowledgements, he thanks himself "for working my tail off to pay for this thing!" He might also thank the A list of Nashville session musicians (including Dan Dugmore, who gets his name misspelled for his trouble) for giving him a sound competitive with what's on country radio. He does thank his co-writers, Lynn Hutton and Jon Henderson, who have helped him come up with a bunch of songs that sound like they could be on an album by Kenny Chesney or Alan Jackson. Stillwell celebrates good love ("Surrender") and mourns bad ("The Motions," "What Happened"). He pays tribute to God-fearing good people ("Trying to Get to Heaven") and to the joys of bootleg liquor ("Moonshine"). He imagines asking a dead father for the hand of his daughter ("Good Hands") and reflects on the challenges a father can face ("Heroes and Men"). It's all wholesome, straightforward, mainstream Nashville songwriting that happens not to be coming from a Music Row label. And it demonstrates that the formula can be mixed by an outsider who wants in just as well as it can by the insiders themselves. ~ William Ruhlmann, All Music Guide
Bio / Background
Matt Stillwell is starting to make his mark on the music industry in a big way. He plays at venues accross the southeast including the famed Bluebird Cafe in Nashville, TN, Smith's Olde Bar in Atlanta, GA and The Downhome Cafe in Johnson City, TN.
His solo acoustic performances are intimate, fun and really entertaining. His performances and ability to bring a great crowd have given him the opportunity to open up for rock group Tonic's lead singer Emerson Hart at Smith's Olde Bar in the summer of 2004. He has also opened shows for country superstar Kevin Sharp and bluegrass superstar Larry Keel.
He is from a small town in the mountains of North Carolina (Sylva). He was surrounded by the sounds of bluegrass, southern gospel, and country music. To hear him say it, "The mountains are full of music and it just gets into you without you knowing it." His influences aren't limited strictly to mountain music he has always listened to a variety of music. "I love 'real' music.
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