Mat Kearney

For singer-songwriter Mat Kearney (pronounced CAR-knee), Nothing Left to Lose is about how the echoes of your past can guide you through what lies ahead. On the title-track of his major-label debut, Kearney retraces the long road that brought him from his hometown in Eugene, Oregon to his adopted home in Nashville, Tennessee. Written to make sense of his life, “Nothing Left to Lose” looks at the past to see the future.

Recorded at Dark Horse Studios in Nashville and released through Aware/Columbia Records, Nothing Left to Lose features 12 tracks produced by Robert Marvin and Mat Kearney. The album’s sprawling diversity defies shorthand definitions and reflects Kearney’s confidence and emotional range. The songs move fluently from the poetic meditations of folk to the embraceable openness of pop to acoustic moments backed by hip-hop rhythms.