Wild Dogs (Running in a Slow Dream)

Wild Dogs (Running in a Slow Dream) [Acoustic]

CORB LUND - COUNTERFEIT BLUES
(2014, New West Records)

6/22 Canada (distributed by Warner Canada) 
7/1 US (distributed by ADA) 
7/22 RoW (distributed by ADA / Warner) 

Truth Comes Out

The Process

DENIAL

We hope you enjoy our first single Language, here is a little story about the meandering journey that got us here. 

After years of making music, Conor and I (Mitch) hit a wall. Conor felt pressure to move forward, enlisting in the Navy. I went to college in pursuit of a business degree. We grew apart, and life pushed us away from music.

After college, Conor began to send me music again. Demos, recorded on his iPhone while deployed in the Persian Gulf. The demos were muddy, struggling to punch through the powerful drone of the Cruiser engine that sat beneath him.

Meanwhile, I wasn't ready to dive headfirst into the corporate pool. Instead, I would pursue a grand adventure. I set off to drive my 4Runner from Seattle, WA to Argentina.   

It was through the speakers of that 4Runner that I heard the demos that would eventually become our songs. From what Conor made in the hull of a boat on the other side of the world, music came back to me.  

Years later, I find myself wishing that we had never hit pause. Yet, without the journey, there may not be any music at all. Life isn't linear, we came back to music, and for that we are grateful.

Since, we have added two more members to the band: Anna, who blesses us with her hauntingly perfect vocals, and Daniel, our immensely gifted drummer.

We have now finished our first LP, Shapeless. Somehow, we always come back to what we love to do most.

We are working hard to get our music into as many ears as we can. But, the truth is, we don’t care what happens next. We already have everything that we will ever need. We will never stop making more of it.

Language

Formed in Florida, Matchbox Twenty entered the world with a blockbuster -- 1996's YOURSELF OR SOMEONE LIKE YOU. The debut set spawned five hit singles -- "Push," "3 am," "Real World," "Long Day" and "Back 2 Good" and snagged an RIAA Diamond Award certification for U.S. sales exceeding more than 12 million to date. Thomas also raised the band's profile by co-writing and singing on Santana's Grammy Award-winning 1999 smash "Smooth." Matchbox Twenty maintained the momentum with MAD SEASON in 2000 and "MORE THAN YOU THINK YOU ARE in 2002, both of which went multi-platinum and continued to spit out hits such as "Bent," "Unwell," "If You're Gone," "Bright Lights" and "Disease."

But after three albums of hard work and equally hard touring, Matchbox Twenty was ready for a break. Thomas released a pair of Top 5 solo albums which contained several #1 singles, Doucette worked with his band The Break and Repair Method and wrote film music, while Cook led the New Left. The hiatus not only renewed Matchbox Twenty as a band but also seasoned the individual members even further as they came back together for 2007's EXILE ON MAINSTREAM, a greatest hits collection that sported six inspired new tracks which were co-written by the band for the first time ever and included their biggest selling single to date “How Far We’ve Come”. 

In addition to more than 30 million records sold worldwide, Matchbox Twenty has also earned countless accolades, including five Grammy nominations, four American Music Award nods, the 2004 People’s Choice Award for “Favorite Musical Group, and they were named “Best New Band” in the 1997 Rolling Stone Readers Poll.

After EXILE ON MAINSTREAM's Top 5 success, Matchbox Twenty continued the collaborative process as it headed towards NORTH. The romantic "Overjoyed," according to both Thomas and Doucette, was "the first time we felt like we had something special”. Kyle Cook took lead vocals on the incredible ballad "The Way," which he and Doucette penned together. "She's So Mean," meanwhile, represents a "storytelling exercise" during which Thomas, Doucette and Cook sat around a microphone free styling lyrics that they eventually sculpted into the cautionary tale about a hard-to-handle woman who Doucette promises bears no similarity to anyone in the group members' real lives. Listening deeper to NORTH reveals even more different nuances, approaches and feels because of the group-writing dynamic.
 
"Matchbox Twenty is pretty all-encompassing," Doucette says. "Once it gets rolling, we just devote all our time and energy to that. I can speak for everybody on this; it's the thing we hold the most dear because it's the thing we built the longest, so we want to give it its due. We don't make records that often anymore, so when we do we want to devote our time and energy to not only doing it; but also bringing that music to the fans."

Wild Dogs (Running in a Slow Dream) [Acoustic]

Matchbox Twenty

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