My cover of Luke Bryan's  - What She Want's Tonight from the album 'Born Here, Live Here, Die Here' Recored at Quay West Studios, Gosport UK.

Luke Bryan - What She Wants Tonight (Mat Cooper Cover)

My Cover of 'Build Me a Daddy' from Luke Byrans, 'Born Here, Live Here, Die Here' album. Dedicated to those who serve, and those who've lost those who serve.

Luke Bryan - Build Me A Daddy (Mat Cooper Cover)

Dirt Road Diary's Brand new single, Girl in a Bar! Inspired by the amazing Ashley McBryde, when guitairst Mark Allen saw Ashley playing an acoustic set at the C2C festival in London, this song was written on a napkin and Mark and Mat Cooper got to work creating Girl in a Bar. A tale of the truth of Country music and how true songwriters can convery their stories and imagery with nothing more than a guitar.

Dirt Road Diary - Girl in a Bar

This is a Re-upload of my old Band State 6's 2014 Demo. Uploaded for posterity. I felt it was important that this be posted and here for as long as SoundCloud exists to comemorate guitarist Dave Boardman. 

Dave passed away very suddenly and unexpectedly in 2019. I believe this is one of the last examples of his work recorded and luckily I recently found this so it could be uploaded.

Dave was such an important part of my growth as a musician and artist and also helped teach me to play guitar. I felt this was a good way to remeber him and that he could live on, the sound of his guitar singing out for all time.

Singer - Mat Cooper
Guitar (Lead) - Nick Alford
Guitar - Dave Boardman

State 6 Demo 2014

Kings of Leon - Use Somebody (State 6 Cover)

Foo Fighters - Pretender (State 6 Cover)

Tim McGraw - Truck Yeah! (Mat Cooper Cover)

A cover of Brad Paisley's Southern Comfort Zone

Brad Paisley - Southern Comfort Zone (Mat Cooper Cover)

My Cover of Kip Moore's 'Hey Pretty Girl'

Kip Moore - Hey Pretty Girl (Mat Cooper Cover)

My cover of Eric Church's 'Give Me Back My Hometown'

Eric Church - Give Me Back My Hometown (Mat Cooper Cover)

My cover of Brantley Gilbert's - Country Must Be Countrywide

Brantley Gilbert - Country Must Be Countrywide (Mat Cooper Cover)

My Cover of Spandau Ballet's Through the Barricades

Spandau Ballet - Through the Barricades (Mat Cooper Cover)

Dirt Road Diary - Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye

Dierks Bentley - I Hold on (Mat Cooper Cover)

My cover of Eric Church's Mr Misunderstood.

Eric Church - Mr Misunderstood (Mat Cooper Cover)

Eric Church - Record Year (Mat Cooper Cover)

Dirt Road Diary's cover of Luke Bryans - Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye. Recorded at Quay West Studios 2018.

Mat Cooper - Vocals, Acoustic Guitar
Mark Allen - Lead Guitar
Bill Beck - Bass
Nick Hill - Drums

Dirt Road Diary's first Original song 'The Simple Things'

Written by; Mark Allen, Mat Cooper

Vocals/Acoustic Guitar - Mat Cooper
Lead Guitar - Mark Allen
Bass - Bill Beck
Drums - Nick Hill

Dirt Road Diary - The Simple Things

Eric Church - Talladega (Mat Cooper Cover)

My Cover of Tim McGraw's - How I'll Always Be

Tim McGraw - How I'll Always Be (Mat Cooper Cover)

My Cover of Dustin Lynch's awesome One Hell of a Night.

Dustin Lynch - One Hell of a Night (Mat Cooper Cover)

My Cover of Luke Bryan's Country Girl (Shake It For Me)

Luke Bryan - Country Girl (Shake It For Me) Mat Cooper Cover

My cover of Light it Up, by Luke Bryan. Recorded at Quay West Studios, Gosport, UK.

Luke Bryan - Light It Up (Mat Cooper Cover)

My cover of What Makes You Country, by Luke Bryan. Recorded at Quay West Studios, Gosport, UK.

Luke Bryan - What Makes You Country (Mat Cooper Cover)

My cover of Huntin', Fishin' And Loving Every Day, by Luke Bryan. Recorded at Quay West Studios, Gosport, UK.

Luke Bryan - Huntin', Fishin' And Loving Every Day (Mat Cooper Cover)

Dirt Road Diary's fan favourite 'What a Show' all about our first trip to the Country 2 Country Festival in 2015!

Dirt Road Diary - What a Show

Dirt Road Diary - Highway 9

My Cover of one of my favourite Luke Combs tracks of all time, Hurricane.

Luke Combs - Hurricane (Mat Cooper Cover)

A love letter to the best decde ever! The 1980's! Love, Me! Don't you forget me now ;)

Don't You (Forget about me)

Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget about me) Mat Cooper Cover

Another loveletter to the 80s and one of the most influencial bands in my younger years. It'll never live up to the original but I loved doing this and it aint half bad for a country singer ;) <3 you 80s

Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Mat Cooper Cover)

The DRD version of the epic Luke Combs track, When It Rains It Pours. Complete with some minor lyrical changes to match the way we play it live.

Luke Combs - When It Rains It Pours (Dirt Road Dairy Cover)

Lead Singer of Dirt Road Diary, a UK Based all British Modern Country Band!

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