Mike Mattison & Trash Magic Album Release Party

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Mattison will have the new album at his Jan. 15 show at the Charleston Pour House.

Singer/Songwriter Mike Mattison is releasing his third solo outing, Turn a Midnight Corner, on Jan. 16. Mattison will have the new album at his Jan. 15 show at the Charleston Pour House. The twelve original tracks feature veteran players who make up his band, Trash Magic. Tyler “The Falcon” Greenwell on drums (Tedeschi Trucks Band/Scrapomatic); Dave Yoke on guitar (Dr. John/Susan Tedeschi Band/ Scrapomatic); Greg Spradlin on guitar (Los Lobos satellite member), and Wesley Flowers on bass and keyboards.

The album has an interesting backstory. Mattison was exploring the concept of a fictional 1930s Blues duo (Ted ‘n ‘Turk) who are “rediscovered” in the early 1970s, as an idea for a novella he’s writing. In the story they’re brought together as older men to re-record their old 78 rpm sides. However, as Mattison notes, “the ‘rediscovery’ turns in to a bit of a media circus when rockstars come sniffing around, money muddies the waters, race stuff encroaches, resentments emerge and the whole thing falls to pieces.”