We like a good sub-text in a song, a message that is conveyed through the words of the song even though the song doesn’t actually state directly what it’s really about. And we’ve looked/listened quite hard to find that in Matt Patershuk’s ‘Cutlass Supreme’ the second single from the Canadian singer-songwriter’s latest album “Dog. Tiger. Horses.” out September 19th via Black Hen Music. And we’ve concluded that we may well have been wasting our time – ‘Cutlass Supreme‘ sounds like a detailed description of an early-eighties Oldsmobile and how much Patershuck enjoys owning it and it may well be a song that is a detailed description of an early-eighties Oldsmobile and how much Patershuck enjoys owning it. To finally confirm that we’d need to find incontrovertible evidence that Matt Patershuck does, in fact, own an early-eighties Oldsmobile.
We can confirm that the band on this song consists of Matt Patershuk – Vocals & guitar, Jay Bellerose – Drums & percussion, Tim O’Brien – Mandolin, Steve Dawson – Pedal steel, Jeremy Holmes – Bass, and Ana Egge – Harmony vocals. And we can add that Matt Patershuck says of the song: “I’m always writing songs about birds, horses and cars – I see them as archetypes for a certain kind of freedom that’s not fully knowable. They all have a type of unpredictable character that makes them even more fun to try to get close to.”
Hey, is that out subtext right there?
