Matt Rollings is a Grammy Award-winning American composer, keyboard player and record producer. Known mainly for playing in Lyle Lovett's Large Band, Rollings has worked with many artists, not all

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. Matt won the 'Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album' Grammy Award in 2016 for producing the

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studio album '' Summertime: Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin''. Other artists Rollings has worked with include Billy Joel, Peter Wolf, Clint Black,

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, Larry Carlton, Johnny Cash,

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, Reba McEntire, Suzy Bogguss, Mark Schultz, Beth Nielsen Chapman, Martin Taylor, Richie Sambora, Blues Traveler, and Johnny Hallyday. Rollings released the

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album ''Balconies'' in 1990 on MCA Masters, featuring John Pattituci and Carlos Vega. Matt 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. Also in 2008, Rollings participated in the production of the album ''Psalngs'', the debut release of Canadian musician John Lefebvre. 2018 represented further evolution for Matt. In addition to touring with Alison Krauss and producing Blues Traveler’s thirteenth studio album Hurry Up & Hang Around, Rollings also snagged two more GRAMMY nominations for his work producing

’s My Way: Willie Nelson Sings Sinatra (Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album and Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals).

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* 1964 births Living people Musicians from Bridgeport, Connecticut American country pianists American male pianists American organists American male organists American country keyboardists Date of birth missing (living people) Blue Coast Records artists 20th-century American pianists Country musicians from Connecticut 21st-century American keyboardists 21st-century American pianists 21st-century organists 20th-century American male musicians 21st-century American male musicians 20th-century American keyboardists Lyle Lovett and His Large Band members {{US-musician-stub