Matt Walker

Matt Walker is an ARIA Award-winning Australian blues musician.

Career Walker began playing music in public at the age of 14 at the Selby Folk Club. He played at Port Fairy Folk Festival, National Folk Festival, Bridgetown Blues Festival, East Coast Blues and Roots Festival until the age of 18. Walker joined The Broderick Smith Band playing dobro, guitar and lap steel and toured extensively around Australia. Walker played on and wrote music for Broderick Smith albums My Shiralee, Songster and Crayon Angels from 1994 to 1996.

In 1995, Walker recorded Live at the Rainbow with Ashley Davies on drums, Andrew Entsch on double bass and Jerry Hale on fiddle and guitar before recording There's Life in 1996. In 1998 and 1999, Walker toured across Europe and North America. Live performances included tours with Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Dirty Three, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, tony Joe White, Cat Power, The Black Keys, Joe Cocker and more. In 2003, Walker formed the electric trio The Necessary Few with Grant Cummerford on bass and Roger Bergodaz on drums and recorded the album Navigational Skills. Mick Daley, Liz Stringer's Pendulum, and the Ben Mitchell AKA Benjamin Grant Mitchell 2019 release, Slow Is The New Fast.

Discography + List of albums with selected details Title album details Welcome Me Home Released: 1992 Label: Dex Formats: CD Live At The Rainbow Released: 1995 Label: Rainbow Hotel Records Formats: CD I Listen to the Night Released: 1997 Label: WMinc Formats: CD Soul Witness Released: 2000 Label: WMinc Formats: CD Live At The Continental Released: 2001 Label: WMinc Formats: CD Navigational Skills Released: 2003 Label: Spaghetti Records Formats: CD Matt Walker & Ashley Davies Released: 5 September 2005 Label: Stovepipe Records Formats: CD In Echoes of Dawn Released: 7 September 2012 Label: Stovepipe Records Formats: CD Phantom Ride Released: 7 November 2013 Label: Stovepipe Records Formats: CD

Awards ARIA Music Awards The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of Australian music. Walker has won 1 awards from 3 nominations.

Best Male Artist Best World Music Album 2000 Soul Witness Best Blues and Roots Album