Prettier Than Matt
After years of performing together and writing songs that combine catchy hooks with time-tested storylines of life and love, 2019 saw Jessica Skinner and Jeff Pitts, the duo known as Prettier Than Matt, experience divergent events in their own lives. Skinner got engaged to her longtime boyfriend the same week that Pitts’ mother passed away. The jarring combination of happy and sad emotions packed into the days surrounding that week sent the pair down a deeply personal songwriting path over the subsequent year, and now listeners can hear the results on Prettier Than Matt’s latest full length album, Colors.
Focusing inward, Skinner and Pitts found added maturity and evocative imagery in their writing, while musically the duo stayed well within the comfortable acoustic pop style it has perfected through four previous albums.
Just because these are intensely personal songs doesn’t mean they can’t be applied universally; in fact at times the metaphorical nature of the proceedings masks any specifics. Opening song “Flower In The Sidewalk” is one example, where the simple image of a flower growing in cracked concrete is a means to discuss our dependence on others and the fleeting nature of time itself. “Everything” is chock full of lines like “Turn tears to smiles, my winters into spring,” as it uses a bouncy melody worthy of Jason Mraz to assure the listener “You’re my everything.”
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Covers:
3 Doors Down – Kryptonite
7 Mary 3 – Cumbersome
Adele – Hello
Adele – Right As Rain
Adele – Rolling In The Deep
Adele – Someone Like You
Alanis Morissette – Ironic
Alanis Morissette – You Oughta Know
Alannah Myles – Black Velvet
Alison Krauss – When You Say Nothing At All
Anna Nalick – Breathe (2 AM)
Aqua – Barbie Girl
Avett Bros. – I And Love And You
Avett Bros. – In The Curve
Bad Company – Feel Like Makin’ Love
Bangles – Manic Monday
Barry Louis Polisar – All I Want Is You
Beastie Boys – Fight For Your Right
Beatles – Can't Buy Me Love
Beatles – Come Together
Beatles – In My Life
Beatles – Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
Beatles – Yellow Submarine
Billy Rose – Tonight You Belong To Me
Bill Withers – Use Me
Bloodhoud Gang – The Bad Touch
Bob Segar – Old Time Rock N’ Roll
Bob Segar – Turn the Page
Bon Jovi – Always
Bon Jovi – Bed Of Roses
Bon Jovi – Diamond Ring
Bon Jovi – Livin’ On A Prayer (Prayer '94 Style)
Bon Jovi – Love For Sale
Bon Jovi – Runaway
Bon Jovi – Wanted Dead Or Alive
Bon Jovi – Who Says You Can’t Go Home?
Brandi Carlisle – Keep Your Heart Young
Brandi Carlisle – The Story
Breaking Benjamin – Diary Of Jane
Bush – Comedown
Bush – Glycerine
Bush – Little Things
Butch Walker – Sober
Calling – Wherever You Will Go
Carrie Underwood – Before He Cheats
Chris Stapleton – You Should Probably Leave
Collective Soul – December
Collective Soul – The World I Know
Counting Crows – Mr. Jones
Cure – Lovesong
Cranberries - Dreams
Cranberries - Zombie
Crowded House – Don’t Dream It’s Over
CCR – Have You Ever Seen The Rain?
CCR – Proud Mary
Cyndi Lauper – Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Cyndi Lauper – Time After Time
Cyndi Lauper – True Colors
Deana Carter – Strawberry Wine
Deep Blue Something – Breakfast At Tiffany’s
Def Leppard – Two Steps Behind
Dixie Chicks – Goodbye Earl
Dolly Parton – 9 To 5
Dolly Parton – Jolene
Dr. Hook – Sylvia’s Mother
Eagle Eye Cherry – Save Tonight
Eagles – Hotel California
Elle King – Ex’s & Oh’s
Elvis Presley – Can’t Help Falling In Love
Fastball – Out Of My Head
Fastball – The Way
Fleetwood Mac – Dreams
Fleetwood Mac – Landslide
Flys – Got You Where I Want You
Foo Fighters – My Hero
Foo Fighters – Times Like These
George Michael – Faith
Glen Hansard & Marketa Ifglova – Falling Slowly
Goo Goo Dolls – Acoustic #3
Goo Goo Dolls – Name
Grace Potter – Medicine
Grace Potter – Nothing But The Water
Grace Potter – Paris (Oh La La)
Green Day – Boulevard Of Broken Dreams
Green Day – Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life)
Green Day – When I Come Around
Hall & Oates – Rich Girl
Hanson – Mmmbop
Harry Styles – Watermelon Sugar High
Heart – Alone
Hootie and the Blowfish – Hold My Hand
Hootie and the Blowfish – Let Her Cry
Ingrid Michaelson – Everybody
Ingrid Michaelson – Maybe
Ingrid Michaelson – You And I
Ingrid Michaelson – The Way I Am
Kenny Wayne Shepherd – Blue On Black
Kris Kristopherson – Me and Bobby McGee
Jack White – Love Interruption
Jason Mraz – I’m Yours
Jewel – You Were Meant For Me
Joan Osborne – One Of Us
Jo Dee Messina – Heads Carolina, Tails California
John Cougar – Jack & Diane
John Prine – Angel From Montgomery
John Prine – In Spite Of Ourselves
Johnny Cash – Cry, Cry, Cry
Johnny Cash – Ring Of Fire
Jon Bon Jovi – Every Word
Journey – Don’t Stop Believin’
Jump Little Children – Cathedrals
Katrina & The Waves – Walkin’ on Sunshine
Kings Of Leon – Use Somebody
Leonard Cohen – Hallelujah
Lisa Loeb – Stay
Little Big Town – Girl Crush
Lorde – Royals
Loretta Lynn – You Ain't Woman Enough
Lulu and the Lampshades/Anna Kendrick – Cups
Lumineers – Ho Hey
Madonna – Like A Prayer
Magnetic Flowers – Book Of Love
Malvina Reynolds – Little Boxes
Mamas And The Papas – Dream A Little Dream
Marcy Playground – Sex & Candy
Maroon 5 – She Will Be Loved
Maroom 5 – Sunday Morning
Marshall Tucker Band – Can’t You See?
Marvelous 3 – Every Monday
Matchbox 20 – 3 AM
Matchbox 20 – Unwell
Matisyahu – One Day
Merle Haggard – Mama Tried
Melanie – Brand New Key
Melissa Etheridge – Come To My Window
Melissa Etheridge – I'm the Only One
Metallica – The Four Horsemen
Metallica – Nothing Else a Matters
Metallica/Thin Lizzy – Whiskey In The Jar
Michael Jackson – Billie Jean
Michael Jackson – The Way You Make Me Feel
Mr. Big – To Be With You
Neil Young – Rockin’ In The Free World
Nena – 99 Red Balloons
Oasis – Champagne Supernova
Oasis – Don’t Look Back In Anger
Oasis – Wonderwall
Old Crow Medicine Show – Wagon Wheel
Otis Redding – (Sittin’ On) Dock Of The Bay
Our Lady Peace – 4 AM
OutKast – Hey Ya
Pee Wee King – Tennessee Waltz
Paramore – Moving On
Paramore – Still Into You
Paramore – The Only Exception
Pearl Jam – Black
Peter Frampton – Baby, I Love Your Way
Poison – Every Rose Has It’s Thorn
Proclaimers – I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)
Puddle Of Mudd – She Hates Me
Radiohead – Creep
Refreshments - Banditos
REM – Losing My Religion
REM – Man On The Moon
Ritchie Cordell/Tiffany – I Think We’re Alone Now
Roger Miller – King Of The Road
Savage Garden – Truly, Madly, Deeply
Semisonic – Closing Time
Shawn Mendes – Stitches
Sheryl Crow – All I Wanna Do
Sheryl Crow – Strong Enough
Shinedown – If You Only Knew
Simon & Garfunkel – Mrs. Robinson
Sister Hazel – All For You
Sixpence None The Richer – Kiss Me
Smash Mouth – All Star
Smith & Thell – Statue
Smokey Robinson – Really Got A Hold On Me
Snow Patrol – Chasing Cars
Sonny & Cher – I Got You, Babe
Starship – Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now
Stone Temple Pilots – Big Empty
Soul Asylum – Runaway Train
Sublime – What I Got
Sugarland – Baby Girl
Sugarland – Stuck Like Glue
Tears For Fears – Mad World
Temptations – My Girl
Third Eye Blind – Semi-Charmed Life
Tom Petty – Free Fallin’
Tom Petty – Into The Great Wide Open
Tom Petty – You Don’t Know How It Feels
Tom Petty – Wildflowers
Tracy Chapman – Give Me One Reason
Train – Hey Soul Sister
Train – Meet Virginia
U2 – One
Van Morrison – Brown Eyed Girl
Vance Joy – Riptide
Vertical Horizon – Everything You Want
Verve Pipe – The Freshman
Violent Femmes – Blister In The Sun
Wallflowers – One Headlight
Wayne Cochran/Pearl Jam – Last Kiss
Weezer – Say It Ain’t So
Who – My Generation
Zutons/Amy Winehouse – Valerie
Ruth B. – Lost Boy
Those Country Songs
Shallow
Duran Duran – Hungry Like The Wolf
Don Henley – Heart of the Matter
Walk The Moon – Shut Up And Dance
Kermit The Frog – Rainbow Connection
Lenny Kravitz – Are You Gonna Go My Way?
Goo Goo Dolls – Come To Me
Goo Goo Dolls – Iris
Third Eye Bilnd – How's It Going To Be
Rod Stewart – Forever Young
REM – Man On The Moon
Natalie Imbruglia – Torn
Miley Cyrus – Wrecking Ball
Butch Walker – Coming Home
Christmas Songs:
Brenda Lee – Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree
Evie Karlsson – Come On Ring Those Bells
John Lennon & Yoko Ono – Happy Christmas
John Wesley Work Jr – Go, Tell It On The
Mountain
Mariah Carey – All I Want For Christmas Is You
Nick Jonas – Joy To a The World (A Christmas
Prayer) Robert Alex Anderson – Mele Kalikimaka
Robert MacGimsey – Sweet Little Jesus Boy
O Holy Night
Oh Come, O Come Emmanuel
Chestunts Roasting
Joy To The World
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
Chipmunk Christmas
Chanukah Song