Matt The Electrician is tagged as: folk, singer-songwriter, indie, acoustic, zone acoustic The Mostly True Bio of Matt the Electrician Mussed hair and work clothes be damned, Matt Sever’s been known to schlep directly to gigs disheveled from his real-life day-job: keeping people wired and lit. Yet the moniker is more than just a humorous takeoff on life’s realities. Born Matt the Electrician on a frosty San Francisco morn, Matt and his family soon moved to Oregon in search of culture, nice weather and vineyards. Once there, Matt spent much of his youth obsessed with Woody Guthrie, The Hollies and the soundtrack to Godspell. The Electrician’s were A musical, yet thrifty family, so they found a swell garage-sale trumpet to encourage this musical interest. The Electrician’s moved back to California in the early eighties; and while the trumpet was eventually discarded, the expensive private lessons were not a complete waste, as it was here that Matt met and fell in love with the guitar. Unfortunately, because of the elder Electrician’s spiraling oragami habit, money was not only extremely tight but intricately folded and beautifully hung all around the Electrician household, so Matt was limited to the only three chords his parents could afford. His dad assured him this was plenty, that kids in China only get one or two. And stra... Read More About Matt The Electrician Biography...  Send Matt The Electrician ringtones to your cell
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