White Hinterland - Icarus
Matt wrote a song for Colten Harris Moore because he’s a storyteller.
Oral histories, storytelling and songwriting have been hand-in-hand all along. As for telling stories, the new record has a song called “Tellin’ the Mind,” which is about Colton Harris-Moore, the Barefoot Bandit. He was this kid from Washington state who stole airplanes from the time he was eight until he was arrested when he was 18. He had all of these fans on his Facebook page and everything. He stole an airplane in the Midwest, flew it to the Caribbean, crash landed and was caught when he then tried to steal a boat to get away. He never hurt anyone or killed anyone. He’s this hyper-intelligent, lonely, wild-ass kid and I thought he needed a theme song.
- Matt Vasquez
“Don’t look at me like that. I pulled an ass muscle reaching for my beer”
-Bryden McClure
This is a picture of my Paw Paw, sister Monica and brother Bryden taken at our grandparent’s place in Glen Rose, Tx on the Brazos River. It was our Dunvegan.
Noble and Justice. A hot Texas summer. The bite of the San Marcos River. Bliss.
Lovely.
Carmen Miranda. Everything I’ve ever wanted to be. Someone could live in that smile and I want it to be me.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
