Insider Sessions
On a little corner off of Grand and 17th Street in downtown Des Moines is a bar where locals come almost every day of the week to wind down after […]
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Lightning has struck again
Lightning has struck again. The self-titled and much-anticipated follow-up to Matt Woods and the Thunderbolts’ widely lauded 2007 release, Be My Friend, became available last week to the delight of […]
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WCF Courier Interview
Something old, something new: Award-winner Woods brings traditional blues to Iowans Blues is an old man’s game, but it’s the fresh-faced Matt Woods who holds court at the state’s watering […]
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Be My Friend
These blistering blues will get you spinning out on a cool midnight ride to the crossroads. A mess of standards, such as “Goin’ to Brownsville” (Sleepy John Estes), “Jumper on […]
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Blues Revue ~ Blues Bites
Iowa blues competition winners Matt Woods and the Thunderbolts specialize in hill country stomp, replete with careening slide guitar, hollered vocals, pounding drums (Michael Swanger) and bass (Scott Cochran), and […]
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