About Matthew Kahler: Matthew Kahler has been writing songs ever since he shared a house with his mother, father, and eight brothers and sisters in Albany Georgia, drumming on anything that made sound. That, and singing loudly were ways of getting noticed in a crowd that size. He started playing drums as a little boy at a family wedding and the crowd paid attention. Matthew liked that feeling of cutting loose with his art in front of a crowd, and to this day you'll find his conga at his gigs beside him as an important tool in delivering many of his fine songs. After exploring the world of acting in California, Matthew found himself back in Atlanta being part of the small group of singer songwriters who helped form the now legendary community of indie music put together by Eddie Owen of Eddie’s Attic fame. Matthew, Shawn Mullins, the Indigo Girls, Jennifer Nettles, Clay Cook, John Mayer, Andy Offutt Irwin and more started what we now think of as Georgia indie music at its finest. From the beginning Matthew could be found selling out crowds with his unique blend of quirky lyrics and dynamic performing. It wasn't long before Matthew and Shawn Mullins teamed up for what have become legendary duo performances recorded as the "Jeff ’s Last Dance" series. Matthew went on to write songs with Shawn such as the radio hit "Everywhere I Go". The original Eddie’s crowd appears on some if not most of Matthew’s many solo cd's including John Mayer and Clay Cook (Marshall Tucker Band, Zac Brown band) on guitar, David LaBruyere (John Mayer) and Michael Steele (Bonnie Raitt) on bass, Shawn Mullins on vocals among others. Matthew has never stopped writing and performing. He is so respected among his peers that he receives accolades from John Mayer saying that "Matthew has written some of my favorite lines", Kristian Bush of Sugarland calling Matthew "the unleashed one" and Zac brown saying that, "Matthew Kahler is one of the reasons I started songwriting". He is and has been a performer's performer, a writer's writer.