Matt Butler
He played his first show for an incarcerated audience at the Albany County Correctional facility.Besides performing for inmates, he also turns their stories into song, for the 2022 project Reckless Son, a one-man show.[2] Butler described the project as a "a coming of age story, a hero’s journey", based on a time in his life, in his twenties, when, as he said, "I felt like I had failed everything I’d ever attempted, including making my way as a musician".[3] The EP received a positive review from Andrew Gulden at Americana Highways, who said the songs were "cautionary tales, yes, but also an exercise in empathy toward the folks who find themselves on the wrong side of the iron bars.[5] Butler recorded a video for his song "Just One" with Greg Williams and Jeff Reilly, both filmmakers, for their documentary Generation Found, about a community in Houston, Texas, that attempts to counter addiction among young people.