"Clever songwriting alongside rearranged classics - a throwback style that knows good, old-fashioned storytelling...yet is utterly unpretentious about modernity.”

Matthew R. Sayles is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and founder of Philville Records, an independent label he formed in 2000 in Marquette, Mich.

Sayles has toured nationally and internationally, and has had the honor of performing with country, bluegrass and western swing legends like Merle Haggard, Dwight Yoakam, Asleep at the Wheel, Larry Sparks, Doyle Lawson, The Duhks, Uncle Earl, Hot Club of Cowtown, members of Bob Dylan's "Rolling Thunder Review" and a long list of other highly talented regional and national roots music performers.

Sayles's solo performances bounce from up tempo Telecaster-picked roots country, early rock 'n' roll, roadhouse blues, Americana ballads and bluegrass, to north African-inspired instrumental pieces on five string banjo and south American-infused arrangements on the Andean ten-stringed Charango.

An accomplished songwriter, storyteller and performer with a deep interest in the history of American roots music, Sayles's live performances evoke a modern interpretation of the coffee house shows of the 1950s and '60s, while still keeping one foot grounded in the beer halls, honky-tonks and night clubs of the recent past and present.

Philville Records was located in Ventura, Calif., from 2009-19 and is now based in Eau Claire, Wis., Sayles continues to write, record, produce and perform as a solo artist, as well as with the Ventucky String Band and his more recent alt-country project the Detroit Sportsmen's Congress. He also performs and does session work with several Los Angeles, Ventura, Portland and Santa Barbara alt-country and roots music projects.

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