Matthew Stephen Jacobs

Raised in Baton Rouge on guitar hero type Heavy Metal while also taking classical guitar lessons 1984-87. Moved to Boston to study jazz guitar and songwriting at Berklee 1987-90. Moved to Nashville and became a road musician playing mainly country guitar touring the Southeast 1990-94. Played locally with The Geno Haffner Quartet and his other project Swing Thing doing straight ahead bebop jazz, swing, and blues 1994-1997. Led my own psychedelic band "The Cresta Carousel" 1997-1999. Played Heavy Metal Guitar in the Bands Seed and 13 Dead 2000-2002. Became a member of the progressive rock project Liquid Village and helped produce and release the criticly acclaimed CD "All at Once" featuring my song "Make that Change". On the side I led my own jazz trio called The Matt Jacobs trio 2002-2007. Led my own hard rock band Moontraxx 2007-2008 and am currently laying down my own tracks and developing a solo act.