Album Notes

If you're looking for melodic guitar rock, you came to the right place!

Into The Unknown breaks new ground as a collection of rock sounds, melodies, riffs and hooks for the air guitarist in all of us. From explosive speed rockers like 400 Meters and Local Motion, to the gothic ballad October Winds and the old school Latin rock of Dos Diablos, Into The Unknown offers rock fans the whole nine yards.

J.C. Mathews has been inventing and reinventing his melodic rock guitar sound for more than 25 years. A native of Georgia, Mathews learned his first riffs by observing the Southern rock movement up close. He later studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA, and worked to fuse his blues-rock upbringing with the technical mastery of the jazz fusion world.

Now, years later, his playing shows the impact of a wildly divergent group of influences, from Al Dimeola, Carlos Santana and Ritchie Blackmore, to Eric Clapton, David Gilmour, Mark Knopfler and many, many others. Over the years, Mathews lent his unique blend of guitar worlds to dozens of artists. Now, his solo work reflects a philosophy which he sums up in one sentence: the sound of a guitar is a beautiful thing and deserves a melody.