Matt Kirk grew up in the hill country of Texas with a talented musical family.  He has been playing music for as long as he can remember and was more than likely listening to his mother sing in the womb.  His mother Sylvia is a long time musician and singer in the San Antonio area and they regularly play gigs together to this day.  Their album “Matt and Ma” was released in 2022.

Matt’s influences span from folk and country to blues and classic rock to Tejano to Americana and western swing.  Individual influences include the great Levon Helm, Jimmy LaFave, Leon Russell, Doug Sahm, Auggie Meyers and Flaco Jimenez, Monte Montgomery, and Scott Byers among several others.

His debut album displays many of those influences in the music and the lyrics.  From the first soulful track about hanging out in a sleepy, river town to the heartfelt ballads about love shaping your life and love lost, the listener is taken through some of Matt’s own life experiences.  He writes about dreams, he writes about being ok, and he writes tranquil instrumentals.