Matt Rollings is a Grammy Award-winning American composer, keyboard player and record producer. Known mainly for playing in Lyle Lovett's Large Band, Rollings has worked with many artists, not all

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. Rollings won the 'Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album'

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in 2016 for producing the

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studio album '' Summertime: Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin''. Other artists he has worked with include

Billy Joel William Martin Joel (born May 9, 1949) is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. Nicknamed the "Honorific nicknames in popular music, Piano Man" after his Signature song, signature 1973 song Piano Man (song), of the same name, Joel has ha ...

, Peter Wolf, Clint Black, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Larry Carlton,

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, Kathy Mattea, Mark Knopfler,

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, Queensrÿche, Reba McEntire, Suzy Bogguss, Mark Schultz, Beth Nielsen Chapman, Martin Taylor, Richie Sambora, Blues Traveler, and Johnny Hallyday. Rollings released the

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album ''Balconies'' in 1990 on MCA Masters, featuring John Pattituci and Carlos Vega. Rollings was featured on Mark Knopfler's 2004-2005 ''

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'' world tour as a keyboardist, and toured with him again starting in 2006, 2008 and 2010. Also in 2008, Rollings participated in the production of the album ''Psalngs'', the debut release of Canadian musician John Lefebvre. In 2018, he toured with Alison Krauss, produced Blues Traveler’s thirteenth studio album Hurry Up & Hang Around, and also received two GRAMMY nominations for his work producing

’s My Way: Willie Nelson Sings Sinatra (Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album and Best Arrangement, Instruments and Vocals).

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* 1964 births Living people Musicians from Bridgeport, Connecticut American country pianists American male pianists American male organists American country keyboardists Date of birth missing (living people) Blue Coast Records artists 20th-century American pianists Country musicians from Connecticut 21st-century American keyboardists 21st-century American pianists 21st-century American organists 20th-century American male musicians 21st-century American male musicians 20th-century American keyboardists Lyle Lovett and His Large Band members {{US-musician-stub