Matt Ward—

Lotta Love is Matt Ward’s first track from his five-track EP of re-imagined Neil Young songs. The track was recorded with his band The Southern Kind.

Neil Young wrote Lotta Love for his 1978 album Comes a Time, and Nicolette Larson took it into the US top 10 the same year. Plenty of people know the song without knowing Neil wrote it. Matt has slowed it down and given it the warm, dusty country feel that runs through his own records. He co-produced the track with Ryan Martin John at Cactus Cactus Studios in South Australia.

The project started on the highway to Tamworth. With the band in the car and Neil on the stereo, Matt asked a simple question: why not record a few of his songs? That question turned into five tracks.

“Lotta Love has always been one of those songs that stops me in my tracks, so it had to be the first one out,” says Matt. “You can’t beat Neil, so we didn’t try to copy him. We just played it the way it’s always sounded in my head. This EP is my way of saying thanks.”

Matt is a country artist from regional South Australia. Years working as a land manager across remote Australia shape his songs about love, loss, open roads and home.