Scrapomatic

Mike Mattison and Paul Olsen invented Scrapomatic in 1999 in an effort to celebrate the purity of the blues. Their shambolic, uplifting songcraft spans four studio albums and almost twenty years of hell-for-leather touring. Scrapomatic formed in New York in 1999, after the duo met at a 1993 P-Funk concert in Minneapolis. Their funk band gained a Minnesota Music Award nomination before they moved to New York in 1996. On a spring evening in 1999, after appropriating a National tri-cone resonator guitar and accidentally drinking from a santeria candle, Scrapomatic emerged almost fully-formed. Mattison, formerly lead singer for the Derek Trucks Band for eight years, now moonlights as a singer/songwriter for the Tedeschi Trucks Band. He has nine albums, two Grammy Awards, six Blues Music Awards, and two Canadian Maple Blues Awards. Paul Olsen, an ASCAP Award-winning songwriter, is the backbone of Scrapomatic's catalog, having written for Susan Tedeschi, Amy Helm, and Kristina Train. Dave Yoke joined the group in 2005, bringing his Alabama guitar stylings, later succeeding Olsen in the Susan Tedeschi Band and spending five years with Dr. John. Scrapomatic have made their mark on the national scene, performing with the Blind Boys of Alabama, Al Green, Steve Earle, Chocolate Genius, Sharon Jones, James Hunter, etc. etc. As for the rest of the story-... Hell, you’ve got a computer. Google ‘em.

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