{"id":3610,"date":"2020-04-22T12:00:34","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T11:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shindig-magazine.com\/?p=3610"},"modified":"2020-04-22T09:44:52","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T08:44:52","slug":"premiere-matthews-southern-comfort-hey-superman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/?p=3610","title":{"rendered":"Premiere &#8211; Matthews Southern Comfort &#8211; Hey Superman"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>Matthews Southern Comfort share their new song &#8216;Hey Superman&#8217; exclusively with <em>Shindig! Magazine. <\/em>Written by Iain Matthews and recorded the band virtually over a 3 day period this plea to higher powers resonates strongly today.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Matthews Southern Comfort - Hey Superman\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2REvibNJ56U?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Iain Matthews tells how &#8216;Hey Superman&#8217; came about. &#8220;Sitting in my garden four days ago, I felt that I should be doing something constructive and musical, rather than simply reading a book and plinking around on my guitar, waiting for this fucking mess to be over. It set me thinking about this awful situation we\u2019re all in and I began writing.<br \/>\nNot being one for trite, sentimental crap, I wanted to create something that had a strong message and a sense of humor about this damned pandemic. Something I could send to BJ Baartmans (Guitar, Vocals) , knowing he would recognize it as both a necessary thing and a challenge to his music writing abilities. The entire lyric, including edits and word changes took me about an hour and I felt when I was done, that I\u2019d said something of value. That same day BJ finished the music and sent it back to me for approval. As if he needed it. The man is a songwriting phenomenon. We talked out the style of song we wanted and he went at it. The following day, Tuesday, he sent me back a beautifully crafted acoustic track with his guide vocal. I loved it. I knew I would. It was hard to replace his vocal, but hey, I\u2019m the singer, he\u2019s the guitar player. We sent it on to Eric Devries (Guitar, Vocals) and Bart de Win (Rhodes, Vocals), who instantly heard their parts, recorded them at home and flew them back to BJ, pony express, who mixed it. Three days post to post. Now it\u2019s yours.<br \/>\nIf the song can make the slightest positive difference to someone\u2019s day, I\u2019m a happy man. 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Iain Matthews tells how &#8216;Hey Superman&#8217; came about. &#8220;Sitting in my garden four days ago, I felt that I should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3457,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[708],"class_list":["post-3610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music-videos","tag-matthews-southern-comfort","post_format-post-format-video"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3610"}],"version-history":[{"count":-3,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shindig-magazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}