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Artistopia Rank : 50
Member Since : 8/2008
Last Login : 11/24/2011
Views : 9,164
Songs : 3
Events : 0
Alliances : 1
Releases : 2
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Artistopia URL :
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| Latest Music By Big Country Mike Mattera |
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Deal Or No Deal
Published Date : 08/15/2007
Total Downloads : 176
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Artist Biography |
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If you like folksy country music, you will like Big Country Mike Mattera. Songs like "Doo-Doo On You" remind tourists not to feed the sea-gulls. "Pills Pills" if what you eat don't kill you, the cost of your pills will....and the latest after the hit TV series - I want it all... "Deal or No Deal". A product of the 60's and 70's folk era., Mike grew up playing music from the Everly Brothers, Peter Paul & Mary, John Denver, John Prine, James Taylor, Jackson Browne, Harry Chapin and many more....Played throughout the Northeast at colleges, resort towns, and county fairs, under the name Michael Shoemaker...of "Shoemaker & Holly". Music greatly influenced by surroundings, and many songs depict events with a humorous edge. Other songs explore the path of growing up, life's expectations, experienced failures and success with love, friendships, health and faith.
Artist Mission
I have written songs in various styles from rock opera, country, folk, to wrap....brhope to attract a publisher willing to take a chance with my material.
Music Influences
Well that's a funny thing...My Pop was a opera singer, I started out playing folk music, then hard rock , & latter a R & B . I always considered myself a story teller, and country music provides that avenue and permits me to use different styles and methods of music.Artists who most influenced my music are Harry Wincott, Roger Miller, Elvis Presley, Smothers Brothers, Jim Stafford, Ray Stevens, Jerry Reed, Mac Davis, George Harrison, Johnny Rivers, Ricky Nelson, Jimmy Buffett, Loudown Wainwright III, Arlo Guthrie , Steve Goodman, James Taylor, & Tommy Bell.
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