Scott Mathews

Who is Scott Mathews?

Scott Mathews is an American music producer, composer and performer. With sales of more than 35 million records sold as a producer, composer, multi-instrumentalist and vocalist, he has earned 20 gold and multi-platinum awards and has worked on decades of GRAMMY and Oscar Award winning projects. He has produced Elvis Costello, Roy Orbison, Roseanne Cash, Jerry Garcia, Huey Lewis, John Hiatt, Nick Lowe, Dick Dale, Sammy Hagar, Van Dyke Parks and many others. He has written songs and/or recorded with a diversity of artists from Barbra Streisand to John Lee Hooker, including Keith Richards, George Harrison, Mick Jagger, The Beach Boys, Eric Clapton, Van Morrison, Bonnie Raitt, David Bowie, Steve Perry, Johnny Cash, Todd Rundgren, Robert Cray, Ry Cooder, The Tubes, Sammy Hagar, Jefferson Starship and Raphael Saadiq. He has performed on various musical instruments with Neil Young, John Fogerty, Kid Rock, Steve Miller, Carlos Santana, Boz Scaggs, Jimmy Buffett, Zac Brown, Ringo Starr, Joe Walsh, Dwight Yoakam, Clint Black, Tom Waits, Chris Isaak and Joe Satriani along with more than 60 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees and on several Grammy Award and Oscar Award winning releases. As an artist, he recorded as Dūrocs for Capitol Records with his longtime writing partner, Ron Nagle and established the video department at Capitol just prior to MTV.