VINYL NIGHT: Matthew Sayles of Philville Records

Vinyl night at the Lakely with Matthew R. Sayles of Philville Records! Come down and enjoy some rarities and other eccentricities from Sayles’s personal record collection where he’ll be digging into 45’s and LP’s. The evening will be broken up into three sets of music — hour one will be early string band & rare country music, hour two will feature a variety of international music, and the third hour will feature some of Sayles’s favorite LP’s and singles from Motown and R&B legends with some random rock & roll included.

Matthew R. Sayles is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and founder of Philville Records, an independent label he formed in 2000 in Marquette, Michigan. Sayles also hosts the weekly open Mic night at the Lakely every Wednesday (except when he’s on tour), and has guest hosted as a DJ on The Old Dingy Jukebox (Ventura, CA), a podcast that features deep cuts and obscure records from the deep wellspring of down home American Roots Music.

Sayles has toured nationally and internationally, and has had the honor of performing with country, bluegrass, and western swing legends like Merle Haggard, Dwight Yoakam, Asleep at the Wheel, Larry Sparks, Doyle Lawson, the Duhks, Uncle Earl, Hot Club of Cowtown, members of Bob Dylan’s “Rolling Thunder Review” and a long list of other highly talented regional and national roots music performers.

Philville Records was located in Ventura, CA from 2009-2019, and is now based in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Sayles continues to write, record, and produce, as well as perform with his latest project the Driftless Revelers, Wyatt Thomson, Kenny Hotopp, the Ventura based Ventucky String Band, and his California alt. country project the Detroit Sportsmen’s Congress. He also performs solo and does session work with Eau Claire, Duluth, Marquette, Los Angeles, Ventura, Portland and Santa Barbara alt. country and roots music projects.