Listen to the Bennett Matteo Band on their debut record.
When guitarist Gino Matteo and vocalist Jade Bennett log into a Zoom meeting for a scheduled interview, it’s not the live visages of the duo that appears onscreen, but just a static shot of Matteo.
And indeed, while there are some more straight blues tracks on the record , the reset skip across genres including funk , alt rock , dance , soul , and even psychedelia . Then there’s the gospel of “Oh Lord,” which features the work song backing vocals of The Sons of the Soul Revivers. The pair wrote all 10 tracks.
Matteo and Bennett first met in 2010 at a blues jam, and “almost immediately” moved in together and began writing music. Matteo also had a day gig playing and touring in the band of blues/soul singer Sugaray Rayford, so it was more than a decade before The Bennett Matteo Band took shape. “When I first met Gino, I was interested in blues music, but I didn’t feel like myself if I was trying to do just that,” Bennett—who name checks St. Vincent, Queens of the Stone Age and Haitus Kaiyote as her favorites. “Genre is something that has always worried me. So, we don’t care what it’s categorized as. And I like classic country, bluegrass, and driving to zydeco too.”
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