MATT WALKER & ASHLEY DAVIES

MATT WALKER & ASHLEY DAVIES

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Track List

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1. Sleep Over

2. Technological Advances

3. Try Harder

4. On the Street Tonight

5. I Miss You

6. Bulk Haulage

7. Hunter

8. Where You Been

9. Standing at the Station -Listen (mp3 / 1.87MB)

10. Just Add Wine

MATT WALKER AND ASHLEY DAVIES

Released on September 5th, 2005 on Stovepipe Records

Matt Walker - guitars, lap steel, harmonica, vocals

Ashley Davies - drums, vocals

Digipak

CD-ROM component produced by Justin Heitman

The Duo is back in town. This will be the first album where it's just the two of us in the studio playing live since I Listen to the Night in 1997. Something was arced up deep down between me and ash way back when, and we both knew it wasn’t going to quit. Matt

the duo is at it's best when it is working from emotion and feeling. be it song, instrumental or ballad...me and matt might go off on tangents, but the essential part, for me, the heart and soul of whatever you do, where ever the music might go, is the groove, the rhythm. It’s got to make you feel good. Ash

Buy it - see Stovepipe Records website for details

Track List

1. Don't Need Sunshine (studio Track) -Listen (mp3 / 1.72MB)

2. Deepest Valley (live)

3. Dirty Fog (live)

4. Room to Move (live)

4. This Broken Sky (live)

5. Second Hand Luck (live)

6. All By Myself (live)

MATT WALKER

LIVE AT THE CONTINENTAL

Released 2001 on wminc

Temporarily unavailable

Soon to be reissued on Stovepipe Records

Matt Walker - acoustic guitar, lap steel, vocals

Ashley Davies - drums

Ken Gormly - bass

Chris Abrahams - keyboards

Studio Track - Matt Walker acoustic and electric guitars/vocals, Ken Gormly (The Cruel Sea) bass, Dajon Everett (Gomez) drums

A full-on night at the ‘Conti’, a venue now gone and sadly missed by Melbourne punters. The place was like our second home at the time. For Ashley and me it was always a thrill to perform there. The master tapes for this recording are missing but we hope to find them to re-present a fuller record of the occasion. Matt

Track List

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1. Deepest Valley -Listen (mp3 / 2.88MB)

2. You Put a Spell on Me

3. Black Rose

4. Green and Grey

5. Dirty Fog

6. Victim's Highway

7. In The Undertow

8. Train Driver

9. Evil Feelings

10. Room to Move

11. Second Hand Luck

12. Party Town

MATT WALKER WITH ASHLEY DAVIES

SOUL WITNESS

Released 2000 on wminc

Now out on Stovepipe Records

Matt Walker - acoustic guitar, lap steel, harmonica, dobro, vocals

Ashley Davies - drums

Chris Abrahams - piano

Ken Gormly - bass

ARIA AWARD WINNING ALBUM

BEST AUSTRALIAN BLUES AND ROOTS ALBUM 2000

Ash and I were privileged to work with Chris Abrahams (the Necks) and Ken Gormly (The Cruel Sea) One of my favourite songs here with words by the late David McComb.

- Matt

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Track List

1. You put a Spell on Me

2. Good Morning Little Schoolgirl

3. Out of Control

MATT WALKER WITH ASHLEY DAVIES

YOU PUT A SPELL ON ME

Released 2000 on wminc

Now out on Stovepipe Records

Matt Walker - acoustic guitar, harmonica, vocals and atmospheres

Ashley Davies - drums and percussion

Chris Abrahams - piano

Ken Gormly - bass

This is a curious little disc with a great live feel. ‘Schoolgirl’ is a blues song that Ashley and I would often perform at our shows around this time, while ‘Out of Control’ was a one off, never to be played again. If I get time one of these days I’ll teach myself how to play it again. Matt

This cd is already something of a collector's item - sometimes popping up at Rare Records. We have 150 copies of the original pressing left and they are available signed for $14 each including GST, packaging and postage. This is available only by mail order direct from Stovepipe Records

Buy it - see Stovepipe Records website for details

Track List

1. All By Myself

2. I Listen to the Night

3. This Broken Sky

4. You Tell Me Why

5. Danielle

6. Rocks and Gravel

7. Walk On

8. I Can Tell

9. Got You on My Mind

10. Catch That Plane -Listen (mp3 / 2.69MB)

11. I'm a King Bee

Bonus Track: Messin' With The Kid

MATT WALKER WITH ASHLEY DAVIES

I LISTEN TO THE NIGHT

Released 1997 on wminc

Reissued on Stovepipe Records with a bonus track - June, 2006

Now available on Stovepipe Records

Matt Walker - acoustic guitar, harmonica, vocals

Ashley Davies - drums and percussion

Recorded live in the studio.

Electric guitar added by Matt on You Tell Me Why

Hammond organ added by Laurence Maddy on I Listen to the Night

NOMINATED FOR TWO ARIA AWARDS 1997

BEST AUSTRALIAN MALE ARTIST / BEST AUSTRALIAN WORLD MUSIC

I am so excited to announce that Stovepipe Records has re- issued our first studio album, "I Listen to the Night" in June. Ashley and I have been playing music together for years now, but this is where it started. Well not really, it all started with us playing in bars at 3am, but this is when we made our stamp - our first album. It was this album that got our asses overseas. To play in bars at 3am. Matt

Buy it - see Stovepipe Records website for details

Track List

1. Undecided Blues

2. I Listen to the Night

3. Hellhound on My Trail

4. Automobile Blues

5. Black Rose

6. This Broken Sky

7. Jesus Make it Alright

8. Overflow

9. Rocks and Gravel

10. Candy Man -Listen (mp3 / 1.66MB)

MATT WALKER AND FRIENDS

LIVE AT THE RAINBOW

Released 1995 on Rainbow Hotel Records

Now available through Stovepipe Records

Matt Walker - acoustic guitar, lap steel, dobro, harmonica, vocals

Ashley Davies - drums

Gerry Hale - fiddle, guitar

Andrew Entsch - bass

This has been unavailable for some time and Stovepipe has unexpectedly retrieved a carton of the original recordings. It's a warts-and-all live gig on one night way back then at a venue which is legendary in the Melbourne music scene. Ash and I were pleased to have Gerry Hale (Uncle Bill, Paul Kelly Band, The Innocent Bystanders) on board as well as our mate, the late Andrew Entsch. Matt

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MATT AND ASHLEY HAVE OTHER MUSICAL PROJECTS AS WELL AS THEIR DUO RECORDINGS - SEE BELOW

ASHLEY DAVIES

MUSCLE DRUM MUSIC 2

Released 2008 on There's Life Records

Produced by Ashley Davies Muscle Drum Music Volume Two sees Ash stretch out on the same rhythm and musical themes he first hit on with MDM Vol 1.

Ash is still playing the drums, guitars, harps and doing the vocals but for this recording he called on some friends to add their musical expertise to the muscle drum music sound.

Ross Irwin - Cat Empire – (trumpet)
Jake Mason - Cookin on Three Burners – (Hammond, piano)
Craig Woodward – Headbelly Buzzard - (banjo, fiddle).

Shane O’Mara, who’s played and produced with the best of them (Tim Rogers, The Audreys, Lisa Miller), recorded and mixed the album and plays bass on one of the tracks.

Like Volume One, Muscle Drum Music Volume Two is an album to play loud and get physical with the music.

Buy it - see Ashley's website for details

Track List

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1. latino
2. get thee behind me
3. grab your kittens and dance
4. not goin down
5. she is in your dreams
6. love that stomp - listen (mp3 / 3.19MB)
7. glad this aint real
8. have you got it in you?
9. rugged and raw

ASHLEY DAVIES

MUSCLE DRUM MUSIC

Released on October 23rd, 2006 on There's Life Records

Ashley Davies on guitar, harmonica, vocals and two drum kits - no loops or samples. A true solo record, written from the drums up and built on its own driving grooves

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"I love the rhythm smiths," Davies says of his guitar heroes, "Keith Richards, John Lee Hooker and most of all, Malcolm Young. I love AC/DC, and I dig Malcolm just as much as Angus!"

Muscle Drum Music reveals Davies as a many-faceted musician, but this multi-dimensioned album is only one expression of his ever-evolving musical life. "This is not the whole me," Davies points out. "It's just part of what I do."

Listening instructions: shake the stress outta your muscles, roll up the carpet, and play LOUD

Buy it - see Ashley's website for details

Track List
1. Awake at Night
2. Hard to Hide
3. Just Add Wine
4. Vacancy
5. Into the Light -Listen (mp3 / 2.20MB)
6. Boy Under as bridge
7. Do You Remember Our Love?
8. Right From Wrong
9. Easily Changed
10. Everyone Was Born to Love
11. Once Again

MATT WALKER & THE NECESSARY FEW

NAVIGATIONAL SKILLS

Released 2003 on spaghetti records

Now available on Stovepipe Records

Matt Walker - vocals, guitars, lap steel, dobro, harmonica, banjo, pump organ, electric organ
Roger Bergodaz - drums, vocals
Grant Cummerford - bass, vocals
Simon Burke - piano, Werlitzer, Hammond organ, pump organ, vocals

Guests:

Suzannah Espie (tracks 8 & 11),

Dajon Everett (tracks 2 & 5),

Ken Gormley (tracks 2 & 5) ,

Mick Harvey (tracks 6, 8 & 10),
Dave Graney & Clare Moore (track 3),

Broderick Smith (track 6),

Ross McLennan, Mal Pinkerton & Louise Woodward (track 5)