Logan Metz

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LOGAN METZ is a musician, writer, and composer based in the American Midwest.  His songwriting spans many genres, from jazz and rock to folk and country, but it’s all marked by artful chord changes, a character-centric narrative style, and a wry lyrical wit rooted firmly in the Tom Waits/ Randy Newman school of piano-based storytelling.

He’s written plays, essays, poems, soundtracks, and children’s albums, and in 2015 earned a Master’s degree from University of Chicago for his rock opera adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Othello”.  Soon after he released his first solo album, “The Last Remaining Payphone in L.A.” (2016).

In 2018 Metz won a Fulbright fellowship to teach at IE University in Madrid, but turned down the award in favor of re-joining his old college friends’ band, Lukas Nelson and Promise of the Real, as a multi-instrumentalist.  Since then he has had the honor of playing with Neil Young, Stephen Stills, Joe Walsh, Jimmy Buffett, Eddie Vedder, Warren Haynes, Robby Krieger, John Densmore, Bob Weir, and in 2023 toured on piano for Willie Nelson.

He’s currently working on a bunch of passion projects, including a strategy card game, a full-scale stage musical, and a brand new solo album, coming out early next year.