Matt Rollings

Matt Rollings is a Grammy Award-winning American composer, keyboard player, arranger and record producer.

Matt Rollings
Matt on tour with Mark Knopfler at O2 World, Berlin in 2010
Background information
Origin	Bridgeport, Connecticut, U.S.
Genres	Jazz, country, rock
Occupation(s)	Musician, record producer
Instrument	Keyboards
Years active	1986–present
Labels	MCA
Website	mattrollings.com

Rollings was a very successful session musician in Nashville from 1986 - 2006, playing on well over 1000 recordings. During that period, he was nominated for the Country Music Association (CMA) Musician of the Year Award 8 times, and won the Academy of Country Music (ACM) Keyboardist of the Year award 10 times. To date, Rollings has played on close to 1500 commercially released recordings in multiple genres.

Known for his work in Lyle Lovett's Large Band, Rollings has worked with many artists, not all country. Rollings won the 'Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album' Grammy Award in 2016 for producing the Willie Nelson studio album Summertime: Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin, and again in 2018 for Willie's album My Way: Willie Nelson Sings Sinatra^[1] .^[2] Other artists he has worked with include Billy Joel, Peter Wolf, Clint Black, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Larry Carlton, Johnny Cash, Kathy Mattea, Mark Knopfler, Dolly Parton, Queensrÿche, Reba McEntire, Suzy Bogguss, Mark Schultz, Beth Nielsen Chapman, Martin Taylor, Richie Sambora, Blues Traveler, and Johnny Hallyday.

Rollings released the jazz album Balconies in 1990 on MCA Masters, featuring John Pattituci and Carlos Vega. In 2020 he released Matt Rollings Mosaicwhich featured an impressive collection of collaborators, including Lyle Lovett, Willie Nelson, Alison Krauss, and others. In 2023 Rollings released another jazz trio recording, The Valentine Sessions, which featured David Piltch on bass and Elizabeth Goodfellow on drums.

Rollings was featured on Mark Knopfler's 2004-2005 Shangri-La world tour as a keyboardist, and toured with him again starting in 2006, 2008 and 2010.^[3]

In 2018 and 2019, he toured with Alison Krauss, produced Blues Traveler’s thirteenth studio album Hurry Up & Hang Around, and also received two GRAMMY nominations for his work producing Willie Nelson’s My Way: Willie Nelson Sings Sinatra (Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album and Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals).^[4]In 2020, his third Willie Nelson production, That's Life, was again nominated for the Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album Grammy.

In 2022, Rollings produced and arranged Rita Wilson's album of duets Now and Forever: Duets featuring Keith Urban, Jackson Brown, Elvis Costello, Smokey Robinson, and others.