Matt Woosey (born 14 August 1984) is an English songwriter, singer and guitar player of blues, rock, folk, and pop. Career Woosey's plays acoustic blues, folk and rock. He has been a musician, songwriter, and singer. He plays acoustic guitar, electric guitar and drums. Woosey played in a Thin Lizzy tribute band called Black Rose. It had a show in Bristol, England that was named 'Vagabonds of the Western World'. Woosey was the lead guitarist in a Malvern-based band called Taxi. It was featured on local BBC radio shows during its UK tours. In this period Woosey split his time between studying at Keele University and touring with Taxi. Taxi remained unsigned although they recorded several self-released albums. They split in 2005, after which time Woosey went solo and toured throughout the UK. After leaving university Woosey returned to his family home in Malvern, Worcestershire and formed The Strange Rain, another three-piece band in which he played acoustic guitar. The band featured original songs from Woosey and stayed together for one year producing one album. Following this Woosey carried out a tour of 100 gigs in 100 days. He also busked around the UK and Europe. Around the same time Woosey had an instrumental song featured on BBC series, It's Not Easy Being Green. He remained a solo performer until forming The Matt Woosey Band in 2011. It played several times at London's Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, and released one album called On The Waggon. Since then, Woosey has toured and recorded with various session musicians and recorded the Hook, Line and Sinker EP and now appears primarily solo, duo (with percussionist Dave Small) or as a three or four-piece band using session musicians. He was described by Tom Robinson as an "upcoming roots artist from the UK with amazing feel+groove". Paul Jones (BBC Radio 2) featured Woosey in his 2014 Grammy Awards radio show in January that year. Tom Robinson of BBC Radio 6 Music mentioned him on Twitter. Woosey toured Holland and Europe in 2012. In 2013, Woosey's album On the Waggon, gained coverage on several BBC radio shows in the UK. In 2014, Woosey was included in Tom Robinson's Fresh on the Net mix session. He also appeared at the Great British Rock & Blues Festival in January 2014 and supported the Brand New Heavies at the Buxton Opera House in February 2014. Later that year, Woosey