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Club 76 Sunday Concert Series: featuring The Matt Woods Band
September 6 @ 3:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Photo courtesy Robyn Anderson
The Matt Woods Band is a Des Moines based blues band specializing in old school urban electric blues. The band’s hard-hitting rhythms and powerful guitar lines evoke a sound right out of the early Chess Records catalog. Featuring Matt Woods on guitar and vocals, Dwight Dario on drums and Patrick Recob on bass, this band boats some of the finest roots musicians in the Midwest. The Matt Woods Band has the ability to turn any situation into an old-fashioned blues party! Whether playing an old favorite or cranking out a clever original tune, The Matt Woods Band can deliver!
MATT WOODS – Guitars, Vocals, Songwriting and Cool Hats
Matt Woods is both a native of Iowa, and a longstanding purveyor of its diverse music scene. As a seasoned performer of many local, regional and national venues, Matt has developed a distinct style while staying true to his love of traditional American music. Woods is well versed in the many shapes this music can take; from traditional delta, hill country and urban electric blues, to gospel, country and folk music. In addition to performing 100+ shows per year as a solo act, playing with several roots oriented bands and backing up some of the finest songwriters in the Midwest, Matt can often be found in the studio, adding guitar parts to a diverse array of recordings.
Matt Woods is both a native of Iowa, and a longstanding purveyor of its diverse music scene. As a seasoned performer of many local, regional and national venues, Matt has developed a distinct style while staying true to his love of traditional American music. Woods is well versed in the many shapes this music can take; from traditional delta, hill country and urban electric blues, to gospel, country and folk music. In addition to performing 100+ shows per year as a solo act, playing with several roots oriented bands and backing up some of the finest songwriters in the Midwest, Matt can often be found in the studio, adding guitar parts to a diverse array of recordings.
PATRICK RECOB – Bass
Hailing from the Kansas Flint Hills calling the Metro Kansas City area home, Patrick Recob has spent the past 32 years honing his craft as a touring bassist and sideman. An alumni of the Gary Primich Band in the 1990s, Lee McBee & The Confessors in the 2000s and as a road sideman performing with many popular traditional Blues national act artists worldwide. He has been a part of several well known, high profile recordings including his own well received debut album produced by James Harman & Nathan James. Currently focusing on his Midwest home base playing bass with several well known regional bands he makes his home with The Matt Woods Band.
Hailing from the Kansas Flint Hills calling the Metro Kansas City area home, Patrick Recob has spent the past 32 years honing his craft as a touring bassist and sideman. An alumni of the Gary Primich Band in the 1990s, Lee McBee & The Confessors in the 2000s and as a road sideman performing with many popular traditional Blues national act artists worldwide. He has been a part of several well known, high profile recordings including his own well received debut album produced by James Harman & Nathan James. Currently focusing on his Midwest home base playing bass with several well known regional bands he makes his home with The Matt Woods Band.
DWIGHT DARIO – Drums
Drummer and New Jersey native Dwight Dario first came to Iowa in 1974 where he spent time playing in the Mother Blues Band, the 3rd Street Sliders with Bo Ramsey, the Rocket 88s, the Little Red Rooster Band, Bob Reidy’s Chicago Blues Show with Johnny Littlejohn and in a duo with fellow Hall of Famer Joe Price. Dwight left Iowa in 1984 he settled in the Twin Cities. He spent 5 years with Blues Deluxe with R.J. Mischo, and then 17 years with the Big George Jackson Blues Band, with whom he toured Europe 12 times. Dwight moved to Des Moines in 2011 and has since played with Malcolm Wells and the Two Timers, Matt Woods, and Rob Lumbard. Dwight represented Iowa, along with Bob Pace, at the IBC in Memphis in 2017. In 2014, Dwight was inducted into the Iowa Blues Hall of Fame.
Drummer and New Jersey native Dwight Dario first came to Iowa in 1974 where he spent time playing in the Mother Blues Band, the 3rd Street Sliders with Bo Ramsey, the Rocket 88s, the Little Red Rooster Band, Bob Reidy’s Chicago Blues Show with Johnny Littlejohn and in a duo with fellow Hall of Famer Joe Price. Dwight left Iowa in 1984 he settled in the Twin Cities. He spent 5 years with Blues Deluxe with R.J. Mischo, and then 17 years with the Big George Jackson Blues Band, with whom he toured Europe 12 times. Dwight moved to Des Moines in 2011 and has since played with Malcolm Wells and the Two Timers, Matt Woods, and Rob Lumbard. Dwight represented Iowa, along with Bob Pace, at the IBC in Memphis in 2017. In 2014, Dwight was inducted into the Iowa Blues Hall of Fame.
Matt Woods
Matt Woods is both a native of Iowa, and a longstanding purveyor of its diverse music scene. As a seasoned performer of many local, regional and national venues, Matt has developed a distinct style while staying true to his love of traditional American music. Woods is well versed in the many shapes this music can take; from traditional delta, hill country and urban electric blues, to gospel, country and folk music.
In addition to performing 100+ shows per year as a solo act, playing with several roots oriented bands and backing up some of the finest songwriters in the Midwest, Matt can often be found in the studio, adding guitar parts to a diverse array of recordings.
Woods has been performing regularly since 2002 and to date has released 5 independent albums (3 solo albums, and 2 albums backed by his unparalleled band, The Thunderbolts). He has also won the Iowa Blues Challenge and gone on to represent the state in the International Blues Challenge an unprecedented 3 times. Matt’s first solo album, “If I Was a Fish”, finished in the top 5 of The Blues Foundation’s “best self-produced CD” category in 2006. His two subsequent albums with The Thunderbolts, have also gained national attention. 2007’s “Be My Friend”, was referred to as “blistering” by Dirty Linen magazine, and Living Blues magazine called 2010’s “Matt Woods and The Thunderbolts”, “a smoking amalgam of Hound Dog Taylor and Freddy King”. Additionally, Blues Revue called the album; “raw, hypnotic and very appealing”. In 2015 Matt released “Sawdust and Gasoline”, his first solo album comprised completely of original material. It went on to receive extensive airplay in the U.S. and Europe and also finished in the top 5 of The Blues Foundation’s “best self-produced CD” category for 2015. “Sawdust and Gasoline” was also nominated by Blues Blast Magazine for album of the year in the “Acoustic Blues” category!
In 2018 Matt Woods released his fifth studio album, “Tired and Dirty” to critical acclaim. Like its predecessor, “Tired and Dirty” is comprised completely of original material in an age old tradition, featuring slashing slide guitar, deft songwriting and powerful vocals.
Over the course of his career, Matt has shared the stage with many notable acts, including; Hubert Sumlin, James Cotton, Pinetop Perkins, Louisiana Red, Eddy “The Chief” Clearwater, Willie “Big Eyes” Smith, John Primer, Rj Mischo, James Harman, Nathan James, Delbert McClinton, The Arc Angels, Dr. John, Kelly Hunt, Joe Price and many more. In 2010, Matt Woods and The Thunderbolts opened for Pat Benetar and REO Speedwagon at the famed Iowa State Fair Grandstand to a crowd of 10,000+! As a point of pride, Matt Woods and The Thunderbolts are the only local band, before or since, to play the Iowa State Fair Grandstand.
