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Matt^Cox

About Me

After first picking up a 6-string at the ripe age of 14, Shenandoah, IA, native Matt Cox has gone on to produce an illustrious catalog of timeless songs, hymns full of lonely highways, distillery lunch breaks, longing and realization. After handling sticks for Phoenix, AZ, based Junk Ditch Road for a short stint in 2002 then later establishing his self as a vibrant part of the Omaha singer/songwriter scene, Cox released the celebrated Folker’s Travels in 2007. Since his formative time in AZ, Cox has begun to define his singular style and toured a good part of the United States, performing in venues ranging from an abandoned warehouse in Oakland, CA to the Bluebird Café in Nashville, TN while local stages like the Waiting Room, Barley St. Tavern, and Slowdown, continue to allow Cox to bring his foot-stomping, white-boy blues & old-time country to a constantly ever-growing fan-base.Cox has recently reached new listeners in towns like Denver, where he played an integral part of A Moveable Feast, a songwriters co-op, and Austin, TX where he has been invited two years in a row to perform at their prodigious SXSW festival. Look for the new album "My Last Dollar" to be self-released March 2009. If you’ve ever felt betrayed by the gloss on the radio or the shine on music videos, Cox offers a bit of good ‘ole honest-to-goodness, hollering music for the new generation.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/24/2006
Band Website: www.mattcoxmusic.net
Band Members: MATT COX - vox, guitar, harmonica BEN ZINN - electric guitars SETH ONDRACEK - bass KAT SMITH - vox NICK SEMRAD - piano MATT ARBEITER - drums
Influences: songwriters/musicians & artists, rivers, solid gold oldies, camping, fishing, PBR, gravel roads, hard apple cider, thunderstorms, architecture, agriculture, bluegrass festivals, open tunings, "cool hand" Luke, Tom Joad, cold women, warm whiskey, "Blind" Willie McTell, the Highway Patrol, Blackberry Brandy, my grandparents, old stompin grounds, road trips far/near, mountains, mix tapes, audiobooks, NPR, etc.
Sounds Like: Around the Bend

Record Label: Down Home Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Finger Pickin' Good by Josh Hoyer

Matt Cox's latest makes listeners pine for country drives and campfires. You just cant find a studio housed in a 100-year-old barn in Omaha. Although they had to wait for space heaters before record...
Posted by on Thu, 09 Apr 2009 12:50:00 GMT

Sit-down with Matt Cox by Marq Manner

When listening to Omaha singer-songwriter Matt Coxs latest disc, My Last Dollar, one could envision a delta blues musician, a road-worn folk singer, a Tom Waits eclectic, a Dylan or the Dead Discip...
Posted by on Thu, 09 Apr 2009 11:39:00 GMT

PAST VENUES & GIG ARCHIVE

Ozone - Omaha, NEMurphy’s Lounge - Omaha, NEMagoon’s Saloon - St. Joseph, MOPaddy Malone’s - Jefferson City, MOThe Blue Fugue - Columbia, MOThe Old Rock House - St. Louis, MOP & H Ca...
Posted by on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 09:44:00 GMT

Folkers Travels, Stick Your Neck Out, and more...

Been a while since I posted a blog so I thought I'd take a minute to fill y'all in on the latest. Last month I released my first studio album FOLKER'S TRAVELS! I first headed west to Colorado to pla...
Posted by on Wed, 07 Nov 2007 09:59:00 GMT

Check it out!! Feature in the DENVER SYNTAX

This is the article "copied and pasted" If you want to go to the actual link, go to:http://denversyntax.com/issue12/music/cox/cox.htmlFrom Omaha, Matt Cox is the first out of town musician that synta...
Posted by on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:13:00 GMT

"...for Paris is a moveable feast."

That's Hemingway for you who are wondering, huh?This September I'll be taking the new cd on the road for a short trip through CO, KS, and MO. Starting with A Moveable Feast III in Denver. The "Feast...
Posted by on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:36:00 GMT

NEW ALBUM, WEBSITE, EMAIL...and just shootin the $@t.

I will soon have the master copy of my latest recordings, that I'm, at least, currently calling Folker's Travels. Graphic design is being done by my friend Jack Redell, and it looks like I'll have it...
Posted by on Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:18:00 GMT

CD's, SNOCAP, and OTHER NEWS

Howdy amigos! Just letting ya'll in on the latest. I am officially sold out of CD's; however, CDBABY still has three left. There's a link to those remaining if you click back to my profile page! ...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 11:39:00 GMT

Almost out of the STICK YOUR NECK OUT (EP)

I just want to thank every person who bought a copy of my live EP, STICK YOUR NECK OUT, and to those of you who took the time to listen and/or share it with someone else. I hope you enjoyed it despit...
Posted by on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 15:48:00 GMT