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Matt Martindale

About Me

Matt Martindale, long time lead singer, guitar player, and writer for the Texas based band Cooder Graw, has headed out on his own. Martindale has penned such Texas anthems as Llano Estacado, Better Days, Lifetime Stand, Clarksdale, That Girl Crystal, Two More Tears in Texas, Booger on my Finger, and many notable others. Now Martindale has taken his pen out on the road once more, with new beginnings. The Matt Martindale Band, will be taking the new show on the road very soon. When asked why the change, the always wordy Attorney-at-music stated, “just cuz.” We think it was actually to spend more time with his family, as evidenced by a decreased tour schedule and a lack of time for explanations. In the past, Martindale has done a bunch of really cool things, like playing some of the Willie Picnic’s, recording a song with the legendary Johnny Bush and Willie Nelson, playing the Larry Joe Taylor Festival several years running (he actually jogs while at the festival, for all of you literalists), recording with Asleep at the Wheel, Pat Green, and Kelly Willis, recording several Dodge commercials, having two songs in the Jamie Foxx movie, "Held Up,"appearing in the independent film "Coyote Funeral," and even recently has the background vocals on the new Pat Green Dodge commercial. When questioned on these various notorious subjects, Martindale had this to say, “huh?” Look for the Matt Martindale Band in your market, your valley market, really soon, “and buy a t-shirt.”


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Member Since: 10/18/2006
Band Website: mattmartindale.net
Band Members: THE GNOMES ADAM CLINE - LEAD GUITAR, VOCALS CHARLIE SHAFTER - RYTHYM GUITAR, VOCALS CLAYTON FREEMAN - BASS, VOCALS JOEL DREISDADT - DRUMS, PERCUSSION MGMT./BOOKING SMARTIST AGENCY JERRETT HARRIS
PHONE: 817-718-6888 E-MAIL: [email protected]"Click Here To Purchase The Newest Album From Charlie Shafter Band"
Influences: CLICK HERE TO SEE VIDEO OF MATT MARTINDALE & THE GNOMES
Sounds Like: CLICK HERE TO SEE MATT MARTINDALE ACOUSTIC FEATURING CHARLIE SHAFTER "Love's Been Looking For You"
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Juniors in the Yard and the Hospital....and the Hotel

Look out, Jr.'s in the Yard. Loading his gun he never thought it'd be this hard. Well Jr. ain't in the yard any more. No, he's been through Houston and back, fought the law and came out drunk, and has...
Posted by Matt Martindale on Fri, 03 Oct 2008 06:26:00 PST

The Persistance of Dali, Hopper and Me

A few of you who truly know me, know I love the mountains. I have spent the last two weekends there, and would live there if I could. This coming weekend, I am taking my happy ass back to the Sangre d...
Posted by Matt Martindale on Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:38:00 PST

Learn to Read

I was travelling across the country, well, across the county, today, protecting the innocent from overzealous persecution. Usually on other worldly travels I bide my time by polishing my nails, learni...
Posted by Matt Martindale on Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:46:00 PST

Thats why Im easy

My ex-good friend "Easy D," loaned me his camper for the LJT festival last week, or whenever the hell it was. Now, I was fully prepared to rent some rolling terd from El Monte and be done with the who...
Posted by Matt Martindale on Mon, 12 May 2008 10:42:00 PST

Play with Real Fire

"At a time when the world, seems to be spinning, hopelessly out of control; there’s deceiver’s and believer’s, and old in-betweener’s that seem to have no place to go." &n...
Posted by Matt Martindale on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 07:47:00 PST

I can fly

Yea, I can fly. I mean, not in a plane, any idiot can buy a ticket if he pawns enough guitars.  And, no, not by sitting in my living room taking some hallucinagenic. I wouldn't do that. No. And n...
Posted by Matt Martindale on Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:16:00 PST

Larry Joe, Texas

I've been here before. I wrote this whole thing about how great LJT's was and how cool everybody was and then, flabamo, I was kicked offline. I know a little about how the ole web works and I know how...
Posted by Matt Martindale on Fri, 11 May 2007 03:05:00 PST

Martindale's Melody Mountain

Most blogs are ex post facto. I did some incredibly normal crap, then I write about it, and make it out to be some kind of fantasmal overload (I don't know what that last statement means). This one he...
Posted by Matt Martindale on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 08:38:00 PST

The Mothership

Going back ain't always easy, especially for someone as old as me, but I'm going to try. In fact I just did. The Make Me a Burrito Experience, (MMB) made our maiden voyage to the Wild West. Thing is, ...
Posted by Matt Martindale on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 08:39:00 PST

Karma Klause

I don't know how it knows. Maybe it's like a thermos. And honestly, it's not like an  eye for an eye, or a booth for a booth. Yesterday my car was vandalized. Not really vandalized, but someone t...
Posted by Matt Martindale on Wed, 07 Mar 2007 03:19:00 PST