Matt Dusk

0:00This is October, no November 2009. Also quite a while ago. I guess right after the record came out. Yeah, after good news came out. So it's been a lot of touring going around the world and just staggered releases. You know, when you come out with record, you put out one country the next and next and just keep following where we're back. So finally we're back here for our live record, live from Las Vegas. Right, so when was this recorded? When were you in Las Vegas? Las Vegas was recorded in August of 2010 and it was recorded for PBS. It was a television show all across America and now we're bringing a little bit of Las Vegas to Sherwood Park in Edmonton. Nice, who's in the band? Is it this huge band that we see in the DVD or who are you touring with? I wish it was a huge band. Unfortunately, well, and fortunately, it's the same rhythm section that I recorded with,

0:47did the DVD. So there's six of us on stage and it's the core of what the song needs. So it makes for a lot of fun and we can also kind of stray a little way from the actual arrangements and fool around a bit. There's wine tasting to speak and fooling around these concerts. There's wine tasting if you go to church. Well, that's why we sold out, right? It's not for the music. No, no, we had to find new marketing tactics. The last time we had 14 people come out and it's like free booze, we're sold out. So I'm paired up with Wild Vines, which is kind of like a great kind of drink to enjoy by the pool or just kind of family events. And man, music and wine just seem to go well together because the more people drink, the better we sound. I mean, that works. That's what we say. But even without drinking, you guys sounded fantastic.

1:33Well, you didn't see us before. Right, rehearsal's not so good. You're going to stick around and play a few more tunes for the website for us and we'll throw them in the catalog and all that stuff. But what got you into jazz? Because kids don't typically gravitate towards the crooner kind of music. Yeah, it was when I was 17 or 18 years old, I was just, I was listening to instrumental jazz and a lot of smaller group stuff. Trio and Corteza, but never vocal stuff. And I was listening to a lot of YouTube and house and electronic music, which is what most teenagers listen to. Buddy in mind, handed me off a disc of the crooners and it was like music I'd never heard before. And after that, I quickly discovered karaoke. And I learned it was an amazing way to meet girls. Yes, I would think so. So quickly, I went from listening to that kind of music

2:21into the crooning stuff and 14 years, 15 years later still doing it. Wow, crazy. It's been a good journey. You mentioned you two in there, they wrote a song for you. Did they write a song for you or did you take just the tune of theirs? Well, they wrote it for Frank Sinatra because they're like huge fans of Frank. Oh, who was that? Yeah, I mean, Sinatra is like one of the King vocalists of all time and it was after Bono recorded the duet with Frank called, I've got you under my skin. So they wrote this song for him for Frank and unfortunately, Frank died and the song kind of just nothing really happened with it. And when I got signed to Universal, there was this huge U2 fan and he's just like, dude, you gotta record this. And he gave me the demo of it. And I was like, you joking? So it's been, I guess since I first heard it

3:08about eight years and every time I sing that song, it's like, even though I'm channeling Bono and the edge for Frank, I still feel like it's my own song because I've lived it for so long. That's crazy. It's a wonderful tune. We do something to show called Five Questions. Five quick questions, one word answers. In the hot seat. Here we go, road or studio? What? Road or studio? Oh, I was like road, sure. Road for sure. Leonard McCartney. I'd have to say Lennon. Most important thing in a song, lyrics, melody or rhythm. Ooh, lyrics. Song you've written your most proud of. Doesn't need to be one word. Back in town, the one that you just heard. Nice and in one word, Matt Dusk. Awkward. He's laughing. Yeah.

3:53He just giggles. Here we go. We're gonna play a tune off the last record called All About Me. Great. You wanna give people a little intro? Yeah, well, All About Me was the first radio signal single we had here in Canada. It just basically talks about as you grow up the ladder in fame or anything, you just always be aware of your surroundings and learn that it's not always about you. Nice. Matt Dusk, thank you so much. Thank you. Festival Place tonight, go check him out. Sold out show and there's booze. Yeah. You can't complain. It's late 95-7.