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Matt
Bonner has spent most of the past ten years writing,
recording, traveling, touring, and furiously scribbling
on airplane napkins or hotel notepads or anything
else close at hand.
His
2003 album, Signs Of Passing, is available
on his label, Stone Circle Records, and follows Gauge,
the 2000 epic from Medicine Stone.
His
first ebook, Mileage, is a true story about
a 14,000 mile road trip around the United States,
and comes replete with highway drama, sleeplessness,
reflection, and near death in roughly equal measures.
His
next CD, Seven Words, is due in early 2007.
He's also developing a second book, a series of high-intensity
vignettes based (so far) around a mythical place called
The Lakehouse.
Matt
has lived in Austin, Boulder, Jackson Hole, Vermont,
and has spent extended time in London, Chicago, and
Boston. He currently lives outside Dublin, Ireland.
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BAND
HISTORY
Medicine Stone 1997-
Arrival Of Horatio (guest keys & perc) 1996-1999
Taller Shadows 1993-94
[unnamed Bistro trio] 1992-93
Salacious Crumb 1991-92
Yukon Time 1987-1991, 1996-97
CHRONOLOGY
age 7 - involuntarily starts classical piano
age 12 - meets
J. Geils, who gives him front row tickets, a t-shirt,
and his first album, an autographed copy of Love Stinks
age
13 - gets 'class musician' and writing awards; endures
braces
age
14 - joins first band; they practice often, change names
constantly, and never gig or record anything
age
15 - writes first complete original (fantastically cliched)
tune
age
18 - goes to Middlebury College in Vermont (Philosophy,
Physics)
TRIVIA
Matt
uses the Haindl tarot deck. He collects strings of
christmas lights, and often has large orange cats,
except for Little, currently black and expected to
remain same. He waited tables once for 6 weeks and
was horrible at it. He drinks as much coffee as possible
and likes chianti and dirty martinis up with lots
of olives. He's six foot one, ambidextrous, and his
favorite color is purple.
For
some reason, that last sentence is the most oft-quoted
one.
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