Living Blues CD Review
Des Moines-based Matt Woods and The Thunderbolts have become one of the hottest acts on the Iowa club circuit of late, with bassist Scott Cochran and drummer Michael Swanger teaming […]
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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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