Artists
Before recording under the name Phosphorescent, Athens, Georgia-born Matthew Houck travelled the world playing under the moniker Fillup Shack and released the album Hipolit in 2000. Relocating to Brooklyn, Houck changed his stage name and released A Hundred Times or More on Warm in 2003. Aw Come Aw Wry followed on Misra two years later before the Dead Oceans-released Pride proved somewhat of a breakthrough in 2007. To Willie - an album of Willie Nelson covers - came out in 2009.
MP3: Phosphorescent - A Picture Of Our Torn Up Praise (2007)
Discography
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Articles
 Every once in a while, something really special comes floating into your musical headspace. Once this happens, you pretty much have to resign yourself to the fact that you’re going to snap up every record that your new infatuation releases, trace their catalogue right back to the video of... |
 Up until last year’s Willie Nelson covers record, To Willie, Phosphorescent – essentially the recording alias of Athens, Georgia native Matt Houck – was more commonly associated with lonesome, gothic... |
 Willie Nelson is no stranger to others covering his songs. In fact that was his career back when the singer and the songwriter were two separate cogs in the entertainment machine. In 1956 Willie sold his song ‘Family Bible’ to a man in a Houston bar for $50. A year later Claude Gray... |
