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Matt Schofield (born 21 August 1977, Manchester, England) is an English blues guitarist and singer. His band, the Matt Schofield Trio, play their own material, a blend of blues, funk and jazz, as well as cover version of blues classics such as Albert Collins' "Lights Are On, But Nobody's Home".
Schofield is regarded as one of the most distinctive and innovative British blues guitarists, and has been rated in the top ten of British blues guitarists by Guitar & Bass Magazine. Schofield's prowess has taken his band to twelve countries, seen him playing with musicians including Buddy Guy and Robben Ford, and brought a note in the Penguin Book of Blues Recordings as one of only two living British artists to gain the maximum four-star rating. In addition, he has been admitted to the British Blues Awards Hall of Fame.
Schofield has been influenced by B.B. King, Freddie King, Albert King, Muddy Waters, Steve Winwood, Eric Clapton, Albert Collins, Jimi Hendrix, Billy Gibbons, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimmie Vaughan, and Tomo Fujita.
The release of The Trio, Live prompted Schofield to be featured in a Guitarist magazine article, listing the nine notable up and coming blues guitarists, Schofield being the only non-American. Of the album they said "britblues meets jazz via N'Orleans – all played with the kind of sizzling guitar that just does not often surface in Fairford, Gloucestershire". In 2007, Guitar & Bass Magazine picked Schofield as one of the "Top 10 British Blues Guitarists of All Time". In August 2009, Schofield released Heads, Tails, & Aces, his third studio effort. The next year (2010) the band collected the Album of the Year award at the British Blues Awards for this album, and released Live from the Archive, recorded in 2007 in the Netherlands. Schofield won the British Blues Guitarist and Jonny Henderson won the British Keyboard Player award, and they both won these awards in 2011, too.
In 2011, the trio released their fourth album Anything but Time, with Kevin Hayes on drums and John Porter as record producer. Guitarinstructor.com, a part of the Hal Leonard organisation, has this album as No 5 in their top 10 albums of 2011, while Mojo magazine picked it as No 1 of Blues albums in 2011.
In 2012, Schofield made available a third live album Ten From The Road, consisting of material performed live in November 2011 by Schofield with Henderson & Hayes.
He released his fifth studio album, called Far As I Can See, in February 2014.
Schofield has played guitar for a number of Dana Gillespie's albums, including Back to the Blues (1998), Experienced (2000), Songs of Love (2001), Staying Power (2002), These Blue Nights (2006), and Live With the London Blues Band (2007), and with The Lee Sankey Group's My Day Is Just Beginning (2000) and She's Not Alone (EP) (2000). He has also played guitar on Dino Baptiste's Two Timing Lover Boy (1999), The Lester Butler Tribute Band's So Lowdown Tour (2002), Earl Green's A Different Picture (2005), The Backbones' New Road Sessions Vol. 1 (2006), JL Fulks' On Down the Road (2016), and Federico Luiu's Walkin' The Blues. He co-produced Ian Siegal's Meat & Potatoes (2005) and produced Siegal's At The North Sea Jazz Festival (DVD) (2006), Swagger (2007), and Broadside (2009). Schofield appears on the compilation albums Mustique Blues Festival (1999, 2000, 2004), Basil´s Bar Blues (2003), and The Six Sessions (2010).
Japanese Effects Pedal company Free The Tone also developed the custom MS SOV SPECIAL overdrive pedal for him and released it as a limited edition product in 2013. A full production version, the MS SOV MS-2V, was later released in 2014.
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