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Root 66: Matt Haeck’s Roadside Favorites

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Name: Matt Haeck
Hometown: Bridgetown, Barbados (birthplace); now based in Nashville, TN
Latest Project: Late Bloomer

Roadside Attraction: Hillsboro Days Inn, Hillsboro, Texas. IT’S THE “BOTTLE ROCKET” MOTEL!

Day Off Activity: Skinny dipping. There’s a lake near Thomas, West Virginia, that’s about 100 degrees year round.

Driving Album: Veedon Fleece, Van Morrison

 

I love lamp #ilovelamp

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Record Store: Found Sound, Ferndale, Michigan. After years of searching for it on vinyl, I walked in and Veedon Fleece was right there on the front endcap.

Tour Hobby: Thrifting. Best thrift stores are definitely NOT in small towns devoid of hipsters and vintage shops. Don’t even bother! Ahem!

Gear Shop: Fanny’s House of Music, Nashville, Tennessee. Like the good thrift stores, I’m once again loathe to send people here, lest they buy up all the good finds.

Truck Stop: Sheetz. Because dope af hotdogs ordered straight from the gas pump.

Coffee Shop: Forth, Winnipeg, Manitoba. Best Americano I’ve ever tasted (go figure), and — duh! — Canadians.

Airport: Denver. Because smoking lounge (cough! cough!)

Diner: Waffle House. Because hashbrown bowls with gravy, 24-hour service, and the best banter between servers and cooks any side of the Mississippi.

Backstage Hang: Heartbreaker Banquet or Winnipeg Folk Fest. (Eating all the cherries backstage at the Winnipeg Folk Fest.)

Best Way to Refresh Your Wicked, Road-Weary Soul: Rothko Chapel, Houston, Texas.

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3×3: Michael Daves on Gandalf, Rogen, and Chris Thile’s Food Obsessions

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Artist: Michael Daves
Hometown: Brooklyn, NY (but from the ATL)
Latest Album: Orchids and Violence
Personal Nicknames: None self-applied, but I've gotten Doc, Bluegrass Gandalf, the bother father. And it's not a nickname, but enough people call me Dave by accident that I usually respond to it.

 

Storming Shelter Island with Bryan Sutton

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Which decade do you think of as the "golden age" of music?
2020-29.

If you could have a superpower, what would you choose?
Teleportation

If you were in a high school marching band, which instrument would you want to play?
The tuba. Mostly because of that scene in Freaks and Geeks where Seth Rogen's character likens playing one to blowing into a toilet.

 

It's an orange Christmas. #hisandhers #rawk @trcrandall Watch out, 2016

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What's your go-to road food?
Usually, something I can't get at home in New York City. When out West, In-N-Out Burger; In the Southeast, Waffle House. But, when I'm traveling with Chris Thile, it's whatever the most esoteric, ridiculous, and mind-blowing foodie establishment in a town may be. Or several towns over. We've been known to drive an hour out of our way for better coffee. Yeah, we're that guy.

Who was the best teacher you ever had — and why?
Yusef Lateef. He was very concerned with his students learning to sound like themselves, play from their own experiences and emotions, and find new sounds. Plus, he was so warm and sincere toward everybody that he's the only person I can imagine ever having gotten away with referring to my wife as "Mrs. Brother Daves" without getting punched.

What's your favorite fruit?
Currently, shishito peppers.

Boots or sneakers?
Have you ever seen me? Sneakers, always.

Noodles or rice?
Rice noodles!

Pacific or Atlantic?
East coast, through and through

Photo credit: Jacob Blickenstaff