Matt Stell
Matt Stell bridges contemporary country and Americana but dips into rock, blues, and classic singer/songwriter fare. He began releasing music in the early 2010s after teaching himself guitar while in college. He had a breakthrough with the streaming hit "Prayed for You" in 2018, which topped the Country Airplay charts in 2019, a position matched by "Everywhere But On" that year. After a couple of quiet years, Stell delivered the One of Us EP in February 2023, followed by 2024's Built by Broken Hearts.
Raised mostly in Center Ridge, Arkansas, with some time spent in Central Florida, Matt Stell grew up listening to a mix of classic country, country-rock, blues-rock, and rap while making a name for himself in basketball. (His high school AAU team once claimed victory over LeBron James.) He went on to play college basketball at Drury University in Springfield, Missouri, where he started playing guitar between school and team obligations. As soon as he could play barre chords, he began writing songs and performing at a local bar. Music quickly became a passion, though he finished a master's degree in communications at the University of Arkansas, made missionary trips to Haiti, and considered medical school before deciding to pursue it as a vocation.
Stell released the album A River Through It on 124 Records in 2013, following it with the single "Country Love Song" in 2015. In the meantime, he opened shows for headliners including Luke Bryan and Eric Church. An offer from Wide Open Music in Nashville, Tennessee, led to the release of the single "Prayed for You" and the EP Everywhere But On in 2019. "Prayed for You" went viral, amassing over ten million streams across platforms before the end of the year. The single's success translated to the charts: it topped Billboard's Country Airplay chart, as did "Everywhere But On." Another EP, Better Than That, arrived in October 2020 and included the song "Look at Me Now." The non-LP single "That Ain't Me No More" followed in 2021, with 2022's "Man Made" teasing the early-2023 release of the One of Us EP. Later that year, Stell notched another Top 40 Country Airplay hit with "Breakin' in Boots," a song that anchored his 2024 EP Built by Broken Hearts.
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Discography
23 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Everywhere But On
Country - Released by RECORDS Nashville on 25/10/2019
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Better Than That - EP
Country - Released by RECORDS Nashville on 16/10/2020
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Breakin' in Boots
Country - Released by Records - Columbia on 6/10/2023
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Breakin' in Boots (Stripped)
Country - Released by Records - Columbia on 1/12/2023
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Everywhere But On (Acoustic)
Country - Released by Records - Columbia on 13/03/2020
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That Ain't Me No More
Country - Released by Records - Columbia on 5/02/2021
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Better Than That
Country - Released by RECORDS Nashville on 24/09/2020
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Born Lonely
Country - Released by Records - Columbia on 16/02/2024
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If I Was a Bar
Country - Released by Records - Columbia on 12/06/2020
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God is a woman
Country - Released by Records - Columbia on 25/10/2019
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Everywhere But On - EP
Country - Released by RECORDS Nashville on 24/05/2019
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Prayed For You (Wedding Version)
Country - Released by Records - Columbia on 4/01/2019
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A River Through It
Country - Released by 124 Records on 19/03/2013
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Prayed For You (Acoustic)
Country - Released by RECORDS Nashville on 16/11/2018
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Memphis on the River (feat. Charla Corn)
Rock - Released by Lightning Rod Records on 6/11/2012
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Boyfriend Season
Country - Released by Records - Columbia on 8/10/2021
Available in24-Bit/48 kHz Stereo