Rolling Stone reports that Striking Matches have a knack for constructing lovely songs. Just as importantly, they excel at building and maintaining close relationships. Talking before an acoustic but raucous performance at New York City’s FarmBorough Festival last weekend, the duo of Sarah Zimmermann and Justin Davis returned again and again to their key connections: with each other, with the show Nashville, and with producer T Bone Burnett. As for Zimmerman and Davis, the two met in college. Zimmermann and Davis’s career has been boosted by their music’s regular presence on the ABC series Nashville.
In the same way Striking Matches found creative partnerships with each other and with the cast of Nashville, they found an easy camaraderie with producer T Bone Burnett, who produced their debut album Nothing But the Silence. For them it’s all about relationships.
