William Matheny & Mink's Miracle Medicine

Mink's Miracle Medicine is a West Virginia alt-country and folk-rock band known for its original songwriting and distinctive blend of Americana, country, and rock influences. Their latest album, Freedom Queen, was produced by Chance McCoy of Old Crow Medicine Show and their work has been featured in Bandcamp Daily, American Songwriter, NPR'S Mountain Stage, and more.

Material Witness is William Matheny’s third full-length album since 2017, but if it feels more like the confident work of an artist who’s been making music for much longer, there’s good reason for that. The Morgantown, West Virginia, multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter paid his dues early, playing in bands with friends and family for two decades, until he was prepared to make his own mark.

“I felt like I had found my voice for real,” Matheny says of the moment around a decade ago when he realized his songwriting was ready. “Up to that point, it was something I did, but I think it just took me a while to figure out exactly what I had to say.”

From 2017’s Strange Constellations to 2023’s That Grand, Old Feeling, plus a scattering of EPs and singles, Matheny has earned his place as one of the Mountain State’s most vivid and dynamic musical voices. Material Witness, recorded in Nashville with Grammy-winning producer-engineer Justin Francis, raises the stakes with ten original songs that often find Matheny “contemplating mortality and the passage of time,” he says.