Lorelei

My name is Matt, and I'm 23 years old and I live in Dayton, Ohio. My goal is to make a record and document its progress here. Currently I'm in the stage of writing and figuring out structures for my songs. I'm going to do my best and post as much as I can to allow availability to anyone who'd be interested.

This is a German seductress named Lorelei.

I have a lot of different feelings and thoughts regarding what I could say with a record. Ultimately I'd picture myself somewhere performing my music. A goal I have would be to move to Houston, Texas and make a real go at being a songwriter there, and meet other songwriters. It is my focus to write music, and write as much as I can. Recently I saw a Randy Newman interview about how one should show some restraint, but leave enough room for creativity. I was reading about Mozart earlier, and Mozart worked at it, as opposed to passively waiting around for ideas to come to him, and that was rather inspiring.

A little background about my musical past. I began playing the trumpet when I was 13 years old. When I turned 16 I received an electric guitar for my birthday. I began playing with a group when I was 17 and continued until I was 19. The name of this group is Queen Mob and was more of a skiffle group. We recorded an album together and I was introduced to the DIY recording process. Way back during my salad days I had Elvis sing-a-long tapes and I used to jump around and listen to them on a cheap little stereo I got one Christmas.

I have a real soft spot for twang, and my influences include, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams, John Prine, George Jones, Townes Van Zandt, Bob Dylan, and Gram Parsons, to cut the list short. I'm sure I'll go into all of this more as the time goes by.

This is me picking and grinning (well, almost). The next blog will feature a song I recorded.