Matt Nathanson

17th edition of landmark web-show brings together Bay Area singer/songwriter and legendary star on a set of originals and covers

NEW YORK, March 15, 2009 Live From Daryl's House celebrates episode #17 this month, with Daryl Hall welcoming highly touted singer/songwriter Matt Nathanson, a New England-born, San Francisco-based musician whose debut Vanguard album, Some Mad Hope, has produced the gold single, "Come on, Get Higher" as well as a number of songs for TV shows like NCIS, Private Practice, One Tree Hill, Big Shots, Scrubs, Women's Murder Club and Men in Trees. The new edition begins airing at www.livefromdarylshouse.com on March 15, and will be featured through the rest of the month on the site along with previously archived episodes.

Says Nathanson: "Snowed in at a beautiful house in upstate New York, making food, hanging with amazing musicians, laughing our asses off... Daryl is the King," commented Nathanson about the experience. "He needs to add 'ringleader of kickass hootenannies'' to his already-stellar resume. Playing his show was like vacation, a total joy."

Nathanson's current single, "Come On Get Higher," has been certified by the RIAA as a gold single, having sold more than 791,000 downloads at a rate of 25k per week. The song was named
iTunes #2 Pop Song of 2008 and currently has 14 million plays on MySpace, and 1.7 million views on YouTube.com. In addition to being named a VH1 "You Oughta Know" artist, Nathanson recently performed on The Late Show with David Letterman and will perform on The Ellen Degeneres Show later this month. Last year, he and his band played on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, Jimmy Kimmel Live and Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. He will go out on tour with Jack's Mannequin and Sugarland this spring. His song "All We Are" has been featured on the TV shows NCIS, Private Practice, One Tree Hill and Women's Murder Club; "Come On Get Higher" has been on Big Shots; "I Saw" and "Little Victories" on Scrubs and "Sooner Surrender" on Men in Trees.

Hall and Nathanson tackle "Come On Get Higher" as well as "Car Crash," "Still" and "All We Are," from Nathanson's sixth studio album, Some Mad Hope. The duo also join in on a pair of Daryl Hall and John Oates classics, "Did It in a Minute" and "One on One," as well as a pair of choice covers in Terence Trent D'Arby's "Wishing Well" and The Band's "The Weight."

Past episodes of Live from Daryl's House have featured a mix of well-known performers like Nick Lowe, K.T. Tunstall, Gym Class Heroes' Travis McCoy, Finger Eleven's James Black and Rick Jackett and the Bacon Brothers, along with newcomers such as Austin, TX-based acoustic guitarist/songwriter Monte Montgomery, Philly soul singer Mutlu, Canadian techno-rockers Chromeo, MySpace pop-rock phenom Eric Hutchinson, Cash Money rocker Kevin Rudolf and Wind-up Records' Chicago rockers Company of Thieves.

Live from Daryl's House started with Daryl's "light-bulb moment" idea of "playing music with my friends and putting it up on the Internet," and the show has subsequently been praised by such varied publications as Rolling Stone, Daily Variety, Yahoo and the influential Lefsetz Letter.