Matt Sweeney & Emmett Kelly of Superwolves

<p><a href="https://www.premierguitar.com/artists/guitarists/matt-sweeney" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Matt Sweeney</a>&nbsp;doesn’t want to dazzle you with rock guitar. That’s boring. That’s lazy. At least to him. He wants to&nbsp;<em>mesmerize&nbsp;</em>you.</p><p>“Really, that’s the point of music: to get people’s minds off of whatever and to hypnotize them a little bit,”&nbsp;<a href="https://www.premierguitar.com/artists/guitarists/matt-sweeney" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sweeney told&nbsp;<em>PG</em>&nbsp;in 2021</a>. After beginning his<em>&nbsp;</em>Superwolves collaboration with Will Oldham, “that’s when I thought, ‘Cool, I did the thing that I wanted to do. I can fingerpick now and I can play with a really great singer who is working in an idiom that I hadn’t worked in before.’</p><p>“I started playing with Will and that gave me the opportunity to keep developing the way that I was playing, because it went well with his singing. After a couple of years, that led to Will suggesting that we write songs together.”</p><p>The audible opiate that Sweeney provides has also cast his spell over the works of Rick Rubin, Johnny Cash, Neil Diamond, Adele,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.premierguitar.com/artists/cat-powers-journey" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cat Power</a>, Run the Jewels, Chavez, John Legend, Zwan (collaboration with Billy Corgan), Tinariwen, “Cowboy” Jack Clement,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.premierguitar.com/videos/the-big-5/billy-gibbons" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Billy Gibbons</a>, and Margo Price. And with every episode of hypnosis comes a trance-breaking snapback. Providing that rhythmic recoil is Sweeney’s current foil,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.premierguitar.com/artists/ty-segall-and-emmett-kelly-no-filter-frenzy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Emmett Kelly</a>. Both have worked with Oldham, but until now—in the current Superwolves line-up—never together.</p><p>Kelly steps into the fold with an indie and outsiders Rolodex filled