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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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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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 […]
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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? […]
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