| FROM BLUES & SOUL, STANDARDS & CLASSICS, BOOGIE AND GOOD OLD ROCK & ROLL, MATT LUCAS CAN SING IT ALL. FORMER MERCURY AND DOT RECORDING STAR, MATT LUCAS, WAS BORN IN 1935 IN MEMPHIS, TN, INFLUENCED BY BIG BANDS, JAZZ AND EVENTUALLY FOUND HIS CALLING IN ROCK & ROLL AND BLUES. IN 1956 MATT MET NARVEL FELTS WHO WAS WORKING FOR THE JERRY MERCER BAND. WHEN NARVEL FORMED HIS OWN GROUP, MATT BECAME VOCALIST AND DRUMMER. LATER, WHEN MATT FORMED HIS OWN GROUP, NARVEL PLAYED LEAD GUITAR. MATT'S FIRST RELEASE, "TRADING KISSES" CHARTED LOCALLY. BY THE SECOND RELEASE, MATT'S HIGH DRIVEN INTERPRETATION OF HANK SNOW'S "I'M MOVING ON" BECAME A WORLDWIDE HIT ON MERCURY'S "SMASH" LABEL, EVENTUALLY EARNING MATT A GOLD RECORD. MORE HITS FOLLOWED WITH "OOBY DOOBY", "MAYBELLINE" & "TURN ON YOUR LOVE LIGHT" ON "DOT" LABEL. MATT HAS PERFORMED WITH SUCH LEGENDS AS CARL PERKINS, ROY ORBISON, CHARLIE RICH, CONWAY TWITTY, RONNIE HAWKINS AND MANY OTHERS. MATT IS STILL PERFORMING TO SOLD-OUT CROWDS IN EUROPE AND CANADA AND HAS WORKED CRUISE LINES AND LAS VEGAS. IN 1977, MATT MET HIS WIFE, BARBARA, AND THEY RESIDE IN FLORIDA BETWEEN THEIR TRAVELS. HE IS A ROCKABILLY HALL OF FAME INDUCTEE AND IS GUARANTEED TO THRILL A CROWD NO MATTER WHICH GENRE OF MUSIC HE IS PERFORMING. MATT CAN PERFORM AS EASILY AS A SOLOIST OR WITH HIS LATEST BACK-UP BAND, THE BLIND MICE. FOR BOOKING INFORMATION, CONTACT GLORIA GODWIN, PETRIFIED ROCK PRODUCTIONS BY E-MAIL OR PHONE 352-795-9638 |
