Some writers move to town and wait for a cut.
Matt Rogers treated the whole thing like a business from the dairy-farm side of Eatonton and just kept showing up.
Georgia first. Church and praise band. Macon in the water — Otis, the Allmans, Capricorn Studios when he finally cut Capricorn on the same floor his heroes used. Nashville about eleven years now. NSAI. CMT. American Songwriter. Music City SongStar. Georgia Country Artist of the Year. “Coal.” “I Was Raised.” “She Was Everything.” “South Dakota Sky.” “Billboard,” with Shenandoah in the video because the ’90s still live in him.
The live rooms are the other half. Stapleton. Clint Black. Clay Walker. Jake Owen. Cole Swindell. LOCASH. Brothers Osborne. Chris Janson. Ole Red on a weekly. Nashville Nights, the songwriter show he helps run. WE Fest this summer. Whiskey Riff just put him on a five-song list of under-the-radar writers you should already know.
Newest stretch: “Heartbreak Town.” Then “I Ain’t Ever Been a Cowboy.” Love story, no costume.
This Spotlight Series sit-down is the writer who still plays like a bandleader.
Interviewed by Chris Ramos of Sons of Lions for The Country Note.
Find him at mattrogerscountry.com and on the socials as @mattrogerscountry.
This is TCN Spotlight Series. A different artist every day. Pour something, watch the video, then come read the story.
Matt Rogers socials
- Website: mattrogerscountry.com
- Instagram: @mattrogerscountry