Red Klay Sinner

“Red Klay here… or you can call me KM3, Klay Matthews the third.”

Dark country rap · Alabama · Virginia · Colorado

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The board · what’s up this week

Three records, one road

Red Klay Sinner — posted releases

01

Dirt Road Gospel

20 songs · the debut

Out now
02

Crossroads

25 songs · written, in production

Coming soon
03

Haunted Roads

15 tales · the Halloween record

In the works
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Album one · out now

Dirt Road Gospel

Twenty songs cut from red dirt and church pews. Trap-country anthems, gospel organ, porch ballads, roadhouse rock and haunted bluegrass — a man caught between what he was raised on and what he keeps doing anyway.

20 tracks → Debut All platforms
  1. 01Dirt Road Gospel
  2. 02Red Klay in My Blood
  3. 03Red Klay Runnin’
  4. 04Baptized in Brake Dust
  5. 05Sunday Sinner
  6. 06Six Days Sinnin’
  7. 07Loud Pipes Long Prayers
  8. 08Callused Hands
  9. 09Amen & Ammunition
  10. 10Preacher’s Son Gone Wrong
  11. 11Whiskey in My Coffee
  12. 12Demons Don’t Sleep
  13. 13Muddy Water Confession
  14. 14Last Call at the Altar
  15. 15She Stayed
  16. 16Mama Prayed Anyway
  17. 17Grandaddy’s Bible
  18. 18Miss You Grandaddy
  19. 19The Town That Raised Me
  20. 20Halo in the Mud

Dirt washes off. What you did in it don’t.

Every song ends with one

Album two · coming soon

Crossroads

Twenty-five songs about the deal you make at the fork and the bill that comes due after. Written end to end — rolling out one song at a time once Dirt Road Gospel finishes its run.

25 tracks → Written Release date TBA
  1. 01Crossroads
  2. 02Two Roads One Sinner
  3. 03Devil’s Toll
  4. 04Sign on the Dotted Line
  5. 05Which Way Home
  6. 06Trade My Soul for Chrome
  7. 07Soul for Keeps
  8. 08Selling Sundays
  9. 09Red Klay Contract
  10. 10Fine Print of Sin
  11. 11Paid in Full Lost in Debt
  12. 12Grandaddy’s Warning
  13. 13Mama’s Voice on the Wind
  14. 14First Baptist Ghost
  15. 15The Road Back to Her
  16. 16Every Prayer I Skipped
  17. 17Broken Spoke Confession
  18. 18Last Fork in the Road
  19. 19Muddy Boots Clean Slate
  20. 20No U-Turns in Hell
  21. 21Standing Where the Roads Meet
  22. 22Humpback Bridge
  23. 23Dally
  24. 24Eye for an Eye
  25. 25Heaven’s Sinner
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The Halloween record · in the works

Haunted Roads

Fifteen true-told tales, one road at a time — Alabama pine rows to Virginia creek bridges to the Colorado high country. Real folklore, told the way it got told to him.

  1. —Black Panther
  2. —Railroad Bill
  3. —Huggin’ Molly
  4. —Face in the Glass
  5. —Three Turns at Hell’s Gate
  6. —Cry Baby Holler
  7. —Humpback Bridge
  8. —Devil’s Marbleyard
  9. —She Wouldn’t Sink
  10. —Woman in Black
  11. —Colorado tales — still being written
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Klay Matthews III · KM3

The lineage · four deep

Everybody in this family got the same name

Same name, same road, same fourteenth birthday that moved somebody somewhere new. The whole catalog runs on it.

First

Klay Matthews Sr.

Marvel, Alabama

Coal miner. Grandaddy. Kept a Bible riding shotgun and never once explained why. Half the record is still arguing with him.

Second

Klay Matthews Jr.

The pulpit

The preacher. Had a sermon for everything, including the things his own son was out doing on a Saturday night.

Third

Klay Matthews III — KM3

Alabama → Covington, Virginia at 14 → Colorado

The one holding the microphone. Raised on red clay, moved at fourteen, moved again when his own boy hit fourteen. Sinner by his own admission, and the only one in the family willing to say it out loud.

Fourth

Klay Matthews IV — K4

Colorado

The son. Same hat, same shadow. The reason a lot of these songs stop short of the worst version of the story.

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The store · opening soon

Merch

Bone cream on black. Same palette as the records, printed the same way — no glitter, no gimmicks.

Dirt Road Gospel
front print
Album tee
$28 – $32
KM3
half-face
Character tee
$28 – $32
Red Klay Sinner
wordmark
Heavyweight hoodie
$55 – $62
Four generations
back print
Lineage tee
$28 – $32
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