Angel From Montgomery
Covers
Interviewer: Some of the covers that you do are surprising, like John Prine's "Angel From Montgomery."
Matthews: I'd love to do Bonnie Rait's version of that.
Interviewer: In your set, it's interesting to hear a song like "Angel from Montgomery," which has a standard folk/country chord progression, next to your songs, which almost never have standard progressions.
Matthews: But I love it in other people's tunes. I don't know why I can't write like that. I love tunes like "Wild Horses" or [Lyle Lovett's] "Boat" - what a great song. I can't do it like him - he's got such a great delivery.
- Acoustic Gutiar, August 1999