2011 Blues Music Awards Winner for Best New Artist and one of the most talked about and electric performers on the circuit today. Onstage he is uninhibited driving audiences wild with his “whatever it takes” boundless stage antics. His voice, guitar playing, and his magnetic energy surely will take him straight to the top.

North Carolina native Hill started playing guitar when he was 12, and than
ks to his Uncle Pat started digging deep into American Roots Music. While in high school Matt started going to blues jams, where he met drummer Chuck Cotton. Chuck had played with Bob Margolin (Muddy Waters Band alumnus.) In 2004 Matt started a band with Chuck, and they won the local competition that would send them to the 2005 International Blues Challenge in Memphis.

Back in Greensboro, Matt started playing with a couple different bands, playing with local blues icon Max Drake and the Buzzkillz, and sitting in with Bob Margolin. Soon Matt was joining Bob Margolin on tour, playing with the likes of Blues heroes like Carey Bell, Hubert Sumlin, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, Calvin "Fuzz" Jones, Pinetop Perkins, and Nappy Brown. Somewhere along the line, Matt developed a totally uninhibited, ferociously raving stage presence that harkens back to the heydays of Howlin' Wolf, Jerry Lee Lewis and Nappy Brown.

In September 2010 the Vizztone Label Group released Matt's debut album ON THE FLOOR which received great reviews and in May 2011 won the award for Best New Artist Debut at the Blues Music Awards (formally the W.C. Handy Awards) in Memphis TN. A couple months later Matt was also nominated for two awards at the Blues Blast Awards in Chicago IL. One for "Best New Artist Debut" and the other for the "Sean Costello Rising Star Award." Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.