Matt Backer is a leading guitarist and songwriter, having performed and toured with a wide array of artists including Emilia Mitiku, Aimee Mann, Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris, Kim Wilde, Laura Mvula, Swing Out Sister, Elton John, Cher, Bananarama, Joe Cocker and Alice Cooper.
Matt’s new blues/rock album is produced by Matt together with his long-time collaborator, Ian Shaw (Nick Heyward, Julian Cope). His new album “Red Guitars” features special guests including Marcella Detroit (Shakespears Sister), Rumer, Sarah Jane Morris (The Communards), Miles Backer (son) and Randy Stindt. The single “Red Guitars”, from the album, conjures up the spirit of Steely Dan.
Matt has composed music featured in hit television series such as NCIS, Law and Order and Date My Mom, films like Domino and Horton Hears A Who, and adverts for household brands including Carlsberg, McDonald’s and Chrysler.
He has toured the world with artists including Belinda Carlisle, ABC (with whom he sold out the Royal Albert Hall performing an orchestral version of their seminal Lexicon Of Love album), and Rumer, on whose double platinum debut Seasons Of My Soul he performed, as well as its follow up Boys Donʼt Cry.
Mojo described a previous album, The Impulse Man, as having ‘the chunkiest riffs and licks you wish youʼd learned to play wrapped around songs reeling with fat choruses and wry humour.’
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