Striking Matches

Two gifted singers, guitarists, and songwriters teamed up to create Striking Matches, a Nashville-based duo whose music is a fresh combination of country, blues, rock, and pop, with an approach that respects roots music traditions while making room for new musical thinking. The group offered up a lean but lively sound that often focused on acoustic instruments for their first album, 2015's Nothing But the Silence, but on subsequent releases, such as 2017's Shameless and 2018's Retrograde, they took on a more contemporary approach, embracing pop and R&B production tropes and ad...