Matthew Moran
Beauty | Wonder | Words | Music
Last night Deb and I shot and edited a performance video of my song, Liturgy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOoNPxzA5JQ If you want to read more about it, visit my Substack here. Liturgy © 2023 – Matthew Moran That one night, was it late December Cold moonlight and baby, I remember Shivers running down my spine The fates foretold, […]
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The Flagstaff Folk Festival. Plus a Lyrics & Photos Project On June 14th, I’m both presenting and performing at the Flagstaff Folk Festival! I believe the last time I performed there was 2008. 12:30-1:20PM – Workshop: Roll Your Own House Concert Tour 3:30-4:00PM – Performance: Stage – The Gregg Cabin If you are in Arizona (I have several on […]
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The Coward and the Fool was officially released earlier this week and, from what I can tell, is on all the streaming services. That doesn’t do a lot for small artist. It is there for convenience. However, if you want to support what I do, consider listening to it on, and subscribing to, my YouTube […]
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Marie: Official Release and Lyric Video On June 29th, Marie was released to all the major streaming services. We also created a simple lyric video, shared below. I have a short background on the song and the lyrics below as well. I’d love it if you took a listen and, if you like what you […]
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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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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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