A few quick notes about MATTHEW FRANCIS ANDERSEN
– 1st Place Winner, American Songwriter Magazine 2012 Lyric Contest
– Venues: Fitzgerald’s (with Steve Forbert, Stacey Earle and Mark Stuart), Heartland Cafe (with Naomi Ashely), Elbo Room, Uncommon Ground (with Sarah Holtschlag and Naomi Ashley).
– Former northern Wisconsin musky/walleye guide!

Matthew is a Chicago native, but as a former walleye and musky fishing guide home has been as far as northern Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. That’s where Andersen’s debut EP Blue Line takes you: from the local taverns and street lights, to the boat landings and rivers deep within the northwoods. Matthew Francis Andersen’s writing shows you where this Midwesterner has been. Logging trucks and taxi cabs, game wardens and bar patrons live inside these songs.

RYAN JOSEPH ANDERSON

Nashville (by way of Chicago) troubadour Ryan Joseph Anderson paid his rock n’ roll dues as the bandleader for roots outfit Go Long Mule, guitar slinger for garage-rockers Rambos, and as a producer, sessions man, and touring musician for a variety of artists. His influences as a songwriter range from country blues to psychedelic folk. His debut LP, The Weaver’s Broom and exclusive videos can be checked out on his website.