12 Facts About Mike Mattison

Mike Mattison was previously the lead vocalist of the Grammy Award-winning Derek Trucks Band and has been a main songwriter of all three bands.

Mike Mattison is an active essayist who publishes on music and poetry.

Mike Mattison serves on the Council of the Association of Literary Critics, Scholars, and Writers.

Mike Mattison was influenced by jazz, the blues, and roots music.

Mike Mattison began exploring songwriting and performing with a friend who had been raised in Minneapolis, Paul Olsen.

Mike Mattison graduated from Harvard with a degree in English and American literature.

Mike Mattison performed in several concerts of The Derek Trucks Band, following this serendipitous meeting.

Mike Mattison continues to maintain his position in Scrapomatic with the duo frequently opening for The Derek Trucks Band.

The next song had a completely different sound altogether, a rendition of a song by Skip James, where Mike Mattison sang in a falsetto.

In 2010, The Derek Trucks Band announced a hiatus, and Mike Mattison joined the new group, Tedeschi Trucks Band, as a backing vocalist and songwriter.

On July 17,2013, Mattison launched a Kickstarter Project, called "untitled-not-so-secret-mike-Mattison-solo-album" which successfully raised its funding goal on August 17,2013.

Mike Mattison released a solo CD You Can't Fight Love on Landslide Records on June 3,2014.