09/20/2019
just released the first single off of his new record that I had the pleasure of engineering and mixing. I also played drums on most of the record. Go check it out! with
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Today we are delighted to announce the debut long player of James Matthew VII titled Stoned When I Pray which arrives in the world Nov 22. You can listen to the first single which also happens to be the title track everywhere now. Follow the yellow brick road. The album follows the New York based singer-songwriter’s Bloom EP released in 2019 on Producer Tony Price’s Maximum Exposure imprint.
With 20 years of touring, songwriting, and production experience under his belt, JMVII brings a wide palette of influence to the Brooklyn psych-rock scene. After revolutionizing the hardcore punk scene as a teenager in his band No Warning, co-founding legendary power pop band the Marvelous Darlings with Ben Cook, James moved from Toronto to Los Angeles where he established himself as a prominent session guitarist and songwriter working with the likes of Tina Turner, B-Real, Bone Thugs n’ Harmony and a range of west-coast psychedelic rock acts.
Under the moniker of Blind Matty, James released the Gr**go! EP on Burger Records which blended the cosmic country rock of the Flying Burrito Brothers with the raw primal blues stomp of Link Wray’s chicken shack boogie.
While travelling through America in 2018, James did stints in San Antonio, New Orleans, San Francisco, and Bushwick, linking up with legendary figures of the psych, folk, and country scenes of today and eras past. Studio sessions in these cities, with collaborators like Augie Meyers (Sir Douglas Quintet, Bob Dylan), Daddy Long Legs, Bill Cutler (Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir), John Catfish (Psychic Ills, N**e Party), Sean Dean (The Sadies), and Matthew ‘Doc’ Dunn (U.S. Girls, MV&EE) amongst others, yielded hours of tape that was eventually condensed into the Stoned When I Pray LP. IF023. Enjoy.