Matt Walsh Acoustic Quartet - Under Suspicion

When Matt Walsh quotes the venerable masters Robert Johnson, Howlin’ Wolf and Little Walter in “The Land Of Blues”, one is immediately confident of his deeply-felt relationship to the blues. The singer, songwriter and blues harp player has what many contemporary colleagues are lacking: authenticity, credibility, charisma. As a result of his 40-year musical career, this pleasant Dubliner takes the blues right back to their acoustic roots and he has gathered a professional formation around him with his Acoustic Quartet: And when Götz Alsmann extols the “musical and body feeling, refinement and purity that can hardly be surpassed” in the liner notes, then there is no doubt that the Irishman who resides in Münster should not only be allowed to move into Alsmann’s TV commune, but has earned a life-time right to live in the House of Blues.