"I was working on a label project and someone was like, “You wanna go see a show? This guy Matt Ward is playing.” I’d never really heard of him at the time, so I went. I was a little homesick at the time, so it was cool to see another American musician. That’s the first time I saw Matt. I thought it was so cool ‘cause I’d heard nothing like that before, to be honest. Here was this guy that sounded like he was fifty years old, but he was a peer onstage wearing a baseball cap and playing this music that sounded like it came from a different era."