Concussion | ||||
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Released | 2001 | |||
Genre | Alt-country | |||
Label | Waxy Silver | |||
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Concussion is an album by the American musician Matthew Ryan, released in 2001 on Waxy Silver.[2][3]
The album was recorded over the course of eight days; "Somebody Got Murdered" is a cover of the Clash song.[4] Ryan duets with Lucinda Williams on "Devastation".[5]
No Depression thought that "Ryan has one of those love-it-or-hate-it voices, but like Dylan or Neil Young, it’s a sound that perfectly captures his lyrics."[6]
AllMusic wrote that "in his rough, sandpaper vocals, Ryan sings about troubled relationships and doomed characters in songs often focusing on matters of violence, either of physical or emotional kind."[1]
All words and music by Matthew Ryan, except where noted.