BIG BOTTLE OF JOY

Double vinyl LP pressing. The Big Bottle of Joy is about celebration - hard-won, overflowing, exuberant celebration. Matt Andersen's latest long-player lives up to the grand title from it's opening song, Let It Slide; a muscular, organ-drenched urge for people to chill out and be good to each other - to it's understated, romantic curtain-closer, Shoes. Andersen finds reason to sustain this celebration of the life we share together everywhere - on the road, missing a lover; between the sheets in a southern Ontario motel room; from Montreal all the way to New Orleans; in a little kitchen ballroom on a quiet night at home. Over a dozen songs infused with raw blues-rock, rollicking Americana, thoughtful folk, and ecstatic gospel, he testifies to something we could all do well to remember: the time we have together is special, so let's spend it the right way.