IRS Nashville folds
Monday, December 14, 2015 – IRS Nashville, the home of Striking Matches, folded on Friday, according to Country Aircheck.
The label was started by former Sony Nashville head John Grady in 2013 along with Caroline, the independent services division of Capitol Music Group. The label was not exclusively country.
Others on the label were Marc Scibilia, Muddy Magnolias and Ashley Clark. The late Cowboy Jack Clement was part of the initial roster. The label had some success with Striking Matches' debut CD "Nothing But the Silence," which came out March 23.
The Country Aircheck article said the artists would be reassigned within Capitol Music.
CD reviews for Striking Matches
The concept of female/male country duos is not new exactly, but it's a rare breed these days. There's Thompson Square, and there was the far too short-lived The Civil Wars. And now Striking Matches are out with their debut full-length, which skews far closer to Joy Williams and John Paul White than the Thompsons.
Striking Matches is Sarah Zimmerman and Justin Davis, who met as students at Belmont University in Nashville in 2007. They had a hand writing all 11 songs here, 3 of them on their own. ...
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