Scott Mathews has combined sales of more than 12,000,000 units worldwide with several top 10 records in Pop, Alternative Rock, R & B, Country

and Americana. He has participated in Grammy and Oscar award winning projects for twenty years and has been featured internationally in such magazines as Rolling Stone, Spin, Billboard, Gavin, Mojo, Q, NME, Time, Electronic Musician, Mix, Guitar Player and Addicted to Noise web magazine.



Scott Mathews owns and operates TikiTown, a full service (tube-analog front end /digital storage) Pro Tools HD recording studio in idyllic Marin County, five minutes over the Golden Gate bridge from San Francisco. Scott also owns and operates Hang On To Your Publishing, a music publishing company with more than three million units in combined sales.



Scott Mathews started out as one half of the Durocs (renowned ceramic artist Ron Nagle was the other half), a Northern California new wave/power pop band that earned a U.S. cult following with their 1979 self-titled release; it was also a Top Ten record in parts of Europe.



By then, Mathews had already caught the attention of the music industry and was getting work as a songwriter, arranger, and multi-instrumentalist (today he most frequently works as a producer).



One of his first assignments was to produce Roy Orbison and "Pretty Woman" for a TV commercial; this was before rock in advertising was common practice. He's written songs for artists as diverse as Barbra Streisand ("Superman") to the Tubes; he's produced retro-revivalists like surf-guitarist Dick Dale and contemporary Americana, like the standard of the genre, John Hiatt's Riding With the King.



Scott has played thousands of sessions with everyone from Bonnie Raitt and the Beach Boys to Keith Richards and he's participated in several Grammy and Oscar winning projects. His songs have been cut by Streisand, Dave Edmunds ("Closer to the Flame"), and NRBQ's Al Anderson (his songwriting partner), among many others in rock, pop, and blues.



Scott Matthews has produced, recorded or performed with: The Beach Boys, Johnny Cash, Roseanne Cash, Eric Clapton, Elvis Costello, Ry Cooder, Robert Cray, John Fogerty, John Hiatt, John Wesley Harding, George Harrison, John Lee Hooker, Mick Jagger. Booker T. Jones, Patti Labelle, Huey Lewis, Nick Lowe, Steve Miller, Van Morrison, Aaron Neville, Roy Orbison, Steve Perry, Bonnie Raitt, Joey Ramone, Keith Richards, Todd Rundgren, Carlos Santana, oz Scaggs, Ringo Starr, Barbra Streisand, Trip Shakespeare (Semisonic) Brian Wilson and Neil Young. (