[ATTENDED: September 22, 2022] Matt Sucich
I thought that Matt Sucich was going to open for Kathleen Edwards in Haddon Heights. But he joined her tour right after that show. And so we saw him for this SOPAC show.
Despite how easy it is to get to SOAPC, the parking area was nuts, so we walked in in the middle of his first or second song.
We also had the terrible realization that the seats (which were moveable and placed in specifically for this show were REALLY close to us. It made for a remarkably uncomfortable set in the otherwise normally really comfy SOPAC.
Sucich has a really pleasant folksinger style with a soothing deep-ish voice and a simple playing and lyrical style.
Midway through the set as I was enjoying him quite a bit he said one of the few things that will turn me against a singer. he said that his new album had backing vocals by Adam Duritz and that he had just been on tour with Counting Crows. There may be no band that I hate across the board as much as Counting Crows (mostly because of Duritz’ voice). So this was not good news to me. Although since Duritz didn’t appear, it wasn’t the disaster it could have been.
At some point he had made a joke about himself and the audience applauded and it became a regular thing that he would say this same thing about himself and we would all applaud. It made for a warm and fun set. Later on when he sang with Kathleen, he really won me over and all memory of Duritz was forgotten.
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