SINGER/SONGWRITER JENNIFER MATTHEWS: An artist of the road, heart and life.
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| Jennifer Matthews (Photo by Syed Zaman) |
Poet/Vocalist/Musician Jennifer Matthews is releasing a 7th CD "Tales
of a Salty Sweetheart." She has engineered this album herself and it was
mixed by Phil Greene ( 25- time Grammy Award-winning engineer) who according to
Matthews told her, “Tales of a Salty Sweetheart is one of my favorite records I
have mixed in the last 10 years.” Matthews had a number of musician preform on
this album including Russell Chudnofsky who played the Dobro slide guitar. The
CD will be released by the label Thundamoon Records founded by her manager Rose
Gardina, who also founded the Boston Girl Guide website and magazine.
Matthews, who is studying at Salem State University for
her degree in English, said when she writes lyrics she literally locks herself
in a room. She smiled "I can’t be disturbed.” And like the poem finding the poet
,the song finds Matthews. Matthews says she is in touch with her “inner voice.”
Her lyrics can be ethereal and transcendent and she counts Leonard Cohen and Bob
Dylan as spiritual masters who have influenced both her lyrics and music.
Matthews has been collaborating on poem song projects with poets Doug Holder and Dennis Daly, and will be taking on new projects as time allows.