Jason Matu

Jason Matu, the one and only folk singing lawyer of Bushwick, has lived many lives. Born in the Enchanted Mountains of Western, New York, where his closest neighbor was a quarter mile away and it was a cow, Matu’s journey took him to the suburbs of Cincinnati (Kentucky side), and then to the bluegrass, then to Brooklyn, where he currently resides-a wild ride for a country boy from the hills.

The grandson of Montana Matt, leader of the Polish Cowboys of Ellicottville, NY, a deep-seated love of music decreed to exist at the dawn of time by Mother Nature herself was awakened in Matu when he joined the band Varsovia in law school. He played bass and wrote songs in Lexington, Kentucky’s dream rock legends, Candidate. While in that group, he first started working with long-time producer and collaborator, Justin Craig, Grammy nominee and currently music director for another hit show. After Candidate failed to make him famous, Jason teamed up with Adam Kruckenberg to make music in the band Shapes on Tape.

A series of tragedies and an intervening global pandemic kept Shapes on Tape on hiatus for quite some time. With nothing else to do, Jason Matu went on bike rides and wrote song after song. Those songs turned into albums full of hits. His third solo album, Dialogues Concerning the Mojo of Jason Matu, will be concluded April 11, 2025.