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This is stop Number Seven on the Ward Highway (if you count "To Go Home") and delivery Number Ten if you count the Monsters of Folk and his two great albums with Zooey. I had the opportunity to hear Matt roll Hold Time out in a concert in Eugene, Oregon and my goodness, what a treat. Gathered around the stage, everyone just got sucked into his soulful vortex as one amazing song after another issued forth. I have long suspected that he was a philosophy major in college (San Luis Cal Poly?) and when he started in on "Epistemology" my wonder turned into near certainty (philosophy majors are never ever completely certain of anything except musical genius when they hear and see it). Who would even know to title a song EPISTEMOLOGY except a philosophy major and who could play an intro guitar riff like the one that begins and ends his lecture on epistemology except a musical genius who continues to evolve and develop as the years and albums go by. So what is this amazing man's theory of knowledge? Ha, I thought you'd never ask: putting one foot in front of the other, doing his very best, and the rest is anyone's guess. Clearly he studied the Zen masters at school and as his musical muse continues to pour forth he just gets deeper and deeper and deeper into a musical journey that promises to find him at the top of the mountain in the end. We also caught him in Portland with the Monsters of Folk where he opened the show with Lotta Losing, jamming in the spotlight on the piano. It was an amazing moment in time. Connor took the mike and thanked Portland for this incredible man, this incredible genius, M Ward and then Matt settled in with 2,000 of his best friends for an unforgetable evening. They played for three hours and it felt like twenty minutes. I learned that being in the presence of a genius like Matt compresses time into a blitz montage experience. You emerge a different person. We also caught him on Austin City Limits where he was his usual amazing self, playijng primarily tunes of Post War. Hold Time is Matt's best album yet and I have said that after each of his previous seven offerings. But truth for telling, his best album is the next one. A genius is a genius and there is "nobody" like Matt, we (the planet) have never had nobody like Matt (yeah, yeah). Nobody. What you need to do is go back to the first offering and work your way through to Hold Time. THE WARD HIGHWAY: It's the greatest novel ever written with many, many more fantastic chapters yet to come. Purity is rarely found in this world and as Matt stumbles along, putting one chord in front of the other, and one meaningful phrase next to the last one, we can only stand in amazement because what is coming next would be anyone's guess. I'll hazzard a guess, what the heck: it will be another dazzling display of soulful genius that just keeps getting deeper and deeper, traveling further and further into the musical muse which is Matt Ward. Watching him in person you can tell he is not impressed at all by himself and he comes across as shy, sincere, and a very quiet and thoughtful man with an incredible sense of humor and ironic insight into the condition of man. A philosopher, yes, with piano and guitar riffs that shake the very foundations of beauty. Matt puts the mystery and magic back into "guessing" what's coming next. I can hardly wait to find out.
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