Young Heart, Old Soul, the third album from roots-rock singer/songwriter Matthew Szlachetka, unfolds like the soundtrack to a cross-country road trip. Filled with heartland hooks, folk melo-dies, and searing electric guitar, these songs draw a line between Los Angeles — where Szlachetka lived for years, soaking up the warm harmonies and jangling riffs of the city's folk-rock icons — and his new home in Nashville, TN, the epicenter of modern-day Americana. It was listed as a Top 10 Album of 2022 by Magnet Magazine. 

For the past half-decade, he's been building his audience show-by-show, touring for more than 200 days a year while earning praise from outlets like Rolling Stone Country, who hailed him as one of the “10 New Artists You Need to Know” based on his catalog of "road-dog roots-rockers and Americana ballads." Young Heart, Old Soul finds him in transit once again, writing songs about a country torn apart by politics yet united by a common spirit. Produced by Scott Underwood, the Grammy-winning co-founder of TRAIN, and largely recorded at Nashville's legendary Blackbird Studios, Young Heart, Old Soul offers its own version of ampli-fied Americana music. Unlike the two albums that came before it, though, Young Heart, Old Soul is also a record about home — the homes we leave behind, the homes we temporarily visit, and the homes we build with others. Maybe that's why these 11 songs feel so grounded. After all, Szlachetka — whose self-made success includes high-profile shows alongside Brandi Carlile, Mike Campbell, Chris Isaak and Blackberry Smoke's Charlie Starr and Benji Shanks, Jeff Trott (Sheryl Crow), Audley Freed (Sheryl Crow, The Black Crowes, Cry Of Love), Kevin Kinney (Drivin’ & Cryin’); regular appearances on SiriusXM's Tom Petty Radio; and his own DittyTV program, Vinyl Recipes, which combines his love for music, cooking, and cocktails — isn't running anymore. Instead, he's finally arrived.