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<\/h2>\n<\/h2>\nHOMETOWN:<\/strong> New York City On his 2007 debut album, Best Days<\/em>, Matt White\u00a0built his sound around piano and guitar equally. On the follow-up, it\u2019s all about the ivories. \u201cThis is really my first record,\u201d he says. \u201cBest Days<\/em> was essentially chasing a time, and I experimented with a lot of nuances, like playing the guitar on half the record. But playing the piano has always been my one true love. My parents constantly took me to concerts, including the Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen and Elton John, and it was those outings that gave me the itch to start playing piano.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s the Good Crazy<\/em> was recorded in a Woodstock, N.Y., church with producers David Baron and Henry Hirsch (Lenny Kravitz), recording direct to analog tape. \u201cAll of the albums I love were done that way,\u201d White explains. \u201cWith tape, there\u2019s a depth in the sound wave that you can\u2019t capture digitally. There were no computers, no Pro Tools and no room for error. If I screwed up, it\u2019s on there.\u201d His commitment to going digital-free was encouraged by Hirsch in particular. \u201cWe were in that church, and Henry really got in my head and helped me evolve,\u201d says Matt. \u201cHe said, \u2018If you can deliver on a performance level, something happens when you play a song live and it\u2019s recorded onto a tangible piece of equipment. There\u2019s\u00a0nothing like it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n The album title is apropos for an artist who is the son of a psychiatrist, and whose song \u201cTherapy\u201d draws on his own experiences in psychoanalysis. \u201cI connect with the Larry Davids of the world,\u201d says White, who will be touring the U.S. through December. \u201cI love the Annie Hall<\/em> approach. I like things that are not perfect. I like art made from instinct. I\u2019m definitely crazy\u2014I\u2019m up until 6 in the morning obsessing over everything. But I think I\u2019m the good crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" MATT WHITE HOMETOWN: New York City INFLUENCES: Elton John, Led Zeppelin, Bruce Springsteen ALBUM: It\u2019s the Good Crazy, out now WEBSITE: mattwhitemusic.com On his 2007 debut album, Best Days, Matt White\u00a0built his sound around piano and guitar equally. On the follow-up, it\u2019s all about the ivories. \u201cThis is really my first record,\u201d he says. \u201cBest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[83],"tags":[2216,2217,1175,10160],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2867"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2870,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867\/revisions\/2870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nINFLUENCES:<\/strong> Elton John, Led Zeppelin, Bruce Springsteen
\nALBUM:<\/strong> It\u2019s the Good Crazy<\/em>, out now
\nWEBSITE:<\/strong> mattwhitemusic.com<\/p>\n