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? […]
Note: I had to publish this as our first blog entry because a LOT of people come here from the YouTube video to get the PDF or zipped images below. I’ll be announcing our new website in another article soon. Simple Travis Picking Lesson Travis Picking… finally First: The video and downloadable PDF and graphics […]