Matthew Mayfield is tagged as: singer-songwriter, folk, acoustic, favourite, birmingham [img]http://assets.pledgemusic.com/projects/000/000/387/badge.png[/img] Birmingham based Matthew Mayfield traces his musical history like a line, from smoky concert halls and Columbia Records, college dorm rooms and garage band battles, all the way back to a bunk bed. He was a kid living in the suburbs, seven years old, sharing a room with his older brother Tommy. It was late at night, and down the hallway Matthew’s father pulled out his 1976 Martin D-28 guitar. He played and sang, classics like “Blackbird” and “Fire and Rain” and early Neil Young, faintly but with enough voice for the silent and still Mayfield boys to hear. “Very few things are quite like a melody,” Matthew says. “Even as a little kid, I felt something profound listening to dad sing and play.” Even though his dad was a businessman, those solitary evening sessions lit something inside Matthew. They pushed him to follow the path of a musician, a twisted and narrow journey where simple melodies acted like lanterns. “I bought Pearl Jam’s album Ten when I was 9 years old,” Matthew says. A year later, “Mom took me to see Slash’s Snakepit,” a side project by the Guns’ player. When a pretty h... Read More About Matthew Mayfield Biography...  Send Matthew Mayfield ringtones to your cell
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