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Critical Acclaim for Wishing I Had Wings:
"crisp pop-folk...beautifully recorded...direct and honest..."
John Grooms, Music Critic, November, 1987

Wishing I Had Wings – Matthew Alexander

Charlotte singer Matthew Alexander’s style is an outgrowth of the singer/songwriter movement of the late ‘60s. As a matter of fact, he started out on the New York-Cambridge folk circuit of those days before “dropping out” to become a doctor.

Wishing I Had Wings, available at New World and Ernie’s, shows off a crisp pop-folk flavor, beautifully recorded at Reflection by Steve Haigler. I admit this LP put me through some changes. Alexander sings direct and honest songs with attractive melodies about subjects like freedom, nature’s beauty, open hearts etc. – not the kind of thing hard-bitten music editors are supposed to appreciate, what with the “life stinks and then you die” attitude currently having the upper hand. But, jeez, guys, you can’t live on a diet of nails forever, and love is important and complicated, the mountains are pretty above the timberline, so give me a break. The things Alexander sings about are a heck of a lot more pleasant than “bus exhaust killed my soul” and you know what, they’re just as real. Sometimes we just need Matthew Alexander to remind us.

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