Matt Heckler

From the venue:

MATT HECKLER is a solo multi-instrumentalist that barely fits into any ordinary musical category. He tends to keep to the darker side of Appalachian mountain music and early bluegrass but listen long enough and you’ll soon be transported to the mountains of Eastern Europe or a dimly lit bar in Ireland where they honor those who have passed with a gently swaying a cappella ballad.

After touring almost nonstop for years in support of bands like Devil Makes Three, Lost Dog Street Band, Flogging Molly, and others, HECKLER, like the rest of us, got sidelined by the ongoing global pandemic. With the newfound time off, he set to pushing creative boundariesin his home recording studio as far as his mind would allow. Each fiddle, banjo, and guitartrack carefully put in place all the while retaining the grit and energy reflected in his liveshows. Paired perfectly as the sequel to After The Flood, the Blood, Water, Coal album is adefining release in his career.

Blood, Water, Coal was performed and recorded by MATT HECKLER with upright bass andbacking vocals provided by Jeff Loops (Lost Dog Street Band). While recording Blood,Water, Coal, MATT HECKLER released The Magnolia Sessions outdoor live set – the maiden release for the now popular series – which made it to #9 on the Bluegrass Billboard Charts. The Magnolia Sessions was still charting upon the release of Blood, Water, Coal, which debuted at #3, leaving HECKLER with two albums running on the Billboard Charts simultaneously.

HECKLER writes, “I started working on this album over a year ago in my home. Ran into alot of snags and problems inherent in self-recording, but being alone, just a mic and myinstruments, was the only way to capture the raw emotions this collection of songs holds forme. Some of these tunes were written over a decade ago, most of them in more recentyears. Others took years to write. But now that it’s done, I can confidently say this album isthe perfect sequel to After The Flood.”