I’ve started publishing acoustic performance videos (typically filmed in our loft) each week on YouTube. My goal is to include at least 2 songs each month from my back-catalog. Anything pre 2012-ish… I don’t have a strict demarcation but I think songs that are more than 10 years old can be considered back-catalog. LADY LOVE […]
I wrote about this over on my Substack. You can join my mailing list/newsletter over there for music, essays, and other curious thoughts. Brief summary: On April 10th, 2021, I was playing with open G tuning and wrote a verse. More than a year later, I found that video and decided to finish the song. […]
I originally wrote about this song over on Substack. I highly recommend that EVERYBODY goes over there and subscribes. Also, invite about 2,000 of your closest friends. 😉 2007: Separation, Flood, and Music 2007 was an eventful year for me (and my family). It is the year of my separation, leading to divorce the following […]
FROM MAILCHIMP TO SUBSTACK Recently, I moved my newsletter to Substack from Mailchimp. This post and the video embedded below explains why. You can find me here: https://matthewmoran.substack.com/ I like Mailchimp. It’s worked great and I have helped a number of clients set it up and use it for their newsletter. It allows API integration […]
AMERICAN DREAM I wrote American Dream back in 2009, following the housing/banking crash. Reflecting on how the US routinely bails out large corporate interest rather than supporting and protecting the middle-class, the song was an amalgamation of ideas. The misguided pursuit of fortune over the pursuit and cultivation of relationships and the plight of the […]
100 YouTube Subscribers and Upping Our Video Game At the end of last week we hit 100 subscribers on YouTube. I am both excited and mortified! I’ll explain in all in the video below. I’ll also discuss some of our video making goals for 2022. 100 Subscribers: Thoughts and Plans We uploaded 4 videos on […]
Note to self: Blog more. Note to my readers: I’ll blog more. Performing out for the first time since 2019 I was asked to play a local Farmer’s Market. It was a paid gig too. And not just produce – though some vendors gave us some of that too – but real cabbage. Not a […]
Making our music promo video – from the shoot to the edit: After posting our promotion video for Making Peace with the War, I was asked how we made it. This post explains in fairly good detail. I’ve also created a video. It is on my YouTube channel and I’ve embedded it below. The actual […]
NEW SONG: INSPIRED BY A MARK TWAIN QUOTE I popped onto Facebook one day and saw a misquote of the Mark Twain quote below. Mark Twain and Benjamin Franklin are two of my favorite figures in American History. They were witty, snarky, and often attacked moralistic societal norms and misguided authority. What’s not to love? […]
EDIT: 4/4/2022 – The video instruction was removed from my old channel. I will be republishing it on my music channel in the next week. If you are interested in knowing when it is published, please contact me using my contact form or subscribe to my official artist channel here. Thanks. Simple Travis Picking […]