So, with the DTB vocal spot vacant Mike Mattison’s name was thrown up from two directions. One was DTB producer John Snyder, who’d carted the duo down to Dockside Studios in Louisiana to cut Scrapomatic, and the other was singer-songwriter Marc Anthony Thompson. Trucks was handed copies of Scrapomatic from two separate sources, ran across Mattison in the subway and recognized him from the album cover and that, more or less, was that.
With Mattison firmly in the DTB lineup, the duo was a fairly obvious candidate as an opening act when the band was headlining, and a passing comment on the Allman Brothers mailing list alerted me to their existence, something that was fairly easy to follow up since there’s a fairly substantial collection of recordings at the Live Music Archive.
Mattison’s gone on to a backing vocals gig with the Tedeschi Trucks Band while Olsen’s been able to supplement his income with writing, producing and gigs as the musical director for solo performer. Along the way he’s also collected two ASCAP songwriting awards. Given the fact that trader/downloader etiquette suggests you buy the official releases, it was fairly predictable that Hughesy’s iTunes library would end up with an extensive collection of official and unofficial recordings...
2002 Scrapomatic
2006 Alligator Love Cry
2008 Sidewalk Caesars