Last Friday, on my Substack, I wrote about confidence and/or the lack-thereof of completing a project. I indicated that I needed to create self-imposed constraints on creative production – to use, The Stallion Harness. To that end, yesterday afternoon, I rendered my acoustic mix of, The Coward and The Fool. Rendering just means, outputting the […]
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It was 2014. Two years prior my youngest had come to live with me full time. We had moved a few miles East of downtown Los Angeles so she could attend a performing arts high school. We rented an old house – a little beat up – that sat on more than two acres. We […]
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Song: She’s a Lady Rick Boggs, an audio engineer and founder of Audio Eyes, wrote this upon hearing the song: She’s A Lady may be Matt Moran’s best contribution to the world’s collection of songs about the timeless, always relevant, most beloved topic of all: the power of the impact of the female kind… …As a […]
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I love the simplicity and vibe of this song. I have the lyrics below the video. Enjoy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0QR6VK0Wlk She Knows Love © 2009 – Matthew Moran Arrogant Sage Music Verse 1: Everything About Her Takes My Breath Away Her gentle and her passion they go hand in hand She always seems to know exactly […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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