Matt Sweeney Talks Red Dead Redemption 2

Matt Sweeney discusses creating the Red Dead Redemption 2 soundtrack for Rockstar Games.

On this episode we had the enormous pleasure of speaking with the great Matt Sweeney, an incredible guitarist, songwriter, producer and all around badass musician whom you’ve heard on many iconic records (Johnny Cash, Adele, Run the Jewels, Bonnie 'Prince’ Billy, and many more). We discussed Matt’s collaborative process with the Rockstar Games music team and Dave Ferguson on their #1 charting soundtrack to Red Dead Redemption 2: the Housebuilding EP, Thelonius Monk’s rules for life, self – expression as an overrated endeavor, sessions with the incomparable Rick Rubin, Appalachian music as a transcendent art form, Adele’s love of 70’s Dion, playing on Johnny Cash’s American V and VI albums, fingerpicking techniques vs Guitar Center licks, the wisdom of John Prine and Bill Withers, Matt's longtime collaborator Will Oldham, and much more. The Red Dead Redemption 2 Housebuilding EP is out now worldwide via Lakeshore Records.