Cool down this summer with Matt Turk's October album release Cold Revival produced by filmmaker David Dobkin

Cool Down Your Summer With Ny Indie Folk Rocker Matt Turk’s October Release Cold Revival Produced By Filmmaker David Dobkin

Hastings-on-Hudson, NY-based musician Matt Turk is a seasoned recording artist, multi-instrumentalist, eternal idealist and compassionate peace loving realist who has been called "…an artist to be reckoned with” by web music authority All Music Guide. He is a veteran performer who has engaged audiences around the world, both as a rocking bandleader and an acoustic folk troubadour.

Matt has shared the stage with Pete Seeger and opened for Judy Collins, The Doobie Brothers, Fiona Apple, The Grateful Dead's Mickey Hart and more.

Matt’s new collection Cold Revival is scheduled for an October 7, 2014 release. Musicians on the album include notables Russ Irwin (Sting, Aerosmith), Chris Joyner (Jason Mraz, Ray La Montagne, Sheryl Crow) and Dean Butterworth (Good Charlotte, Ben Harper). Matt sings, plays acoustic guitar, mandolin and lap steel guitar. Cold Revival was produced by David Dobkin, a filmmaker who is known for directing “Wedding Crashers” and who has a forthcoming October film called “The Judge” starring Robert Downey Jr.

The musician’s warm and folksy baritone lends itself perfectly to the excellent and diverse arrangements on the album. Opening track “Cracked Egg” draws the listener in immediately with its catchy and unique mandolin riffs. A few of the songs featured on Cold Revival are adaptations which were brought to Matt’s attention by his teacher Barry Mitterhoff who is in Hot Tuna. “Midnight on the Water" is a shortened version of the Luke Thomasson classic, an American gem. This solo mandolin track closes with a classic New Orleans King Creole type riff while "Battle Song" is adapted from the instrumental "Tunturisatu” where the sweet vocals provide an engaging contrast to the twisted lyric "I used to dream about you, now I just want to kill you." The title track finds its center around a rhythmic mandolin, an excellent cello/dobro solo as well as a lyrical nod to our age, "Caught between the crossfire of extremists, there's no middle anymore."

Matt’s active touring schedule can be viewed at http://turktunes.com/gigs.php

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