Purple Magazine
— F/W 2011 issue 16

Matt Sweeney

music

portrait by ANNABEL MEHRAN
text by D.V. DEVINCENTIS

 

With his guitar and special sound, Matt Sweeney has traveled through a number of musical settings, dropping Zelig-like into New York’s post-punk scene, playing in boogie bands and dark introspective country groups. He played on the Johnny Cash American V and VI albums and on Bonnie Prince Billy’s plaintive Must Be Blind. He produced songs by The Black Keys, Julian Casablancas, and Kid Rock for the Buddy Holly tribute album Rave On. The list goes on. Sweeney’s fragile and delicate phrasings have an armored attack. His massive but restrained chords have an intricacy and sadness that sound like oaths drawn up from a Gnostic from Mussel Shoals. In this issue Sweeney interviews Mick Fleetwood.

[Table of contents]

F/W 2011 issue 16

Table of contents

purple EDITO

purple NEWS

purple BEST of the SEASON

purple INTERVIEW

purple FASHION WOMEN

purple FASHION MEN

purple DOCUMENTS

purple BEAUTY

purple TRAVEL

purple NAKED

purple PHILOSOPHY

purple NIGHT

purple WINTER

purple VISUAL ESSAY

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