The Roamers bring a wealth of experience from their individual musical careers to this exciting new venture. Led by Matt Rice, a seasoned bass player and singer who has been a dedicated performer in the Los Angeles area for many years, the band offers a unique approach to making music. “We’re a new band and we love playing together, but we’re more like a collective than a group,” Rice explains. “The reason I named it The Roamers is because the members/players kinda roam in and out of the band depending on what day, week or month it is. There are a lot of us involved, and it’s rare that we can all get together at the same time. Usually, we manage to get three, four, or five of us together when needed. We’ve all been musicians for a long time, and have other pursuits. We play in each other’s bands, do session work, and have various gigs. But we’re always excited to play together.”
Formed in 2023, the group played a bunch of local bar gigs to tighten up their sound and live set. Simultaneously, Rice was writing songs, making pre-production demos at home and taking them to the studio to cut with the guys at Sharktank. It took some work and some time, but before they knew it, they had an album. Two songs have already been released as singles, “Room to Roam” and “Do What You Wanna Do” and have racked up substantial listening numbers.
“I wrote this song days before the first recording sessions. The demo recording was kind of a folky with just acoustic guitar. It was only the verses at the time — like a blues kind of structure: verse-verse-solo-verse- solo-verse. Producer Brian Whelan’s thought was “I like the song a lot but it isn’t finished. Go write the rest of the song and bring it back.” That caught me off guard but when I got home, I realized he was right. So I wrote a chorus, an extra verse and brought it back. It was still an acoustic folky song at that time but now it had more of a pop structure with verses and choruses. Together in the studio Brian, Luke and Matt mixed in a little Lubbock, Texas vibe with some Memphis groove and Hollywood seasonings to make the song it’s own thing.”— Matt Rice
With enough rough edges to call it rock n roll and enough dusty twang to call it country, The Roamers embrace every genre of American music they can put their ears on
Guitars/Organ/BV: Brian Whelan
Drums: Luke Adams
Bass Guitar/Lead Vocals/BV: Matt Rice
Steel Guitar: Matt Pynn
WEBSITE: https://www.theroamers.net/
