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Matt Meighan

About Me



Video by Joe Anybody - www.joe-anybody.com
CD Baby www.mattmeighan.com

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/9/2005
Band Website: http://www.mattmeighan.com
Band Members: Me. And various friends at various times.
Influences: Gerard Manley Hopkins, James Joyce, Emily Dickinson, Rainer Rilke, Pablo Neruda. The Art Spirt by Robert Henri. John O' Donahue, David Whyte. Mississippi John Hurt, Woody Guthrie, Lightnin' Hopkins, Brownie McGhee & Sonny Terry, Elizabeth Cotton, Hank Williams Sr, Lucinda Willilams, Utah Phillips, Todd Snider. Humboldt Park. Martin Luther King, Malcolm X. Maw and Paw. Etc, etc...
Sounds Like: Music made by someone who listens to lots of Woody Guthrie, Mississippi John Hurt, Utah Phillips, Townes Van Zandt, Guy Clark, Brownie McGhee, Lightnin' Hopkins, Todd Snider, John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders, and lots of other people I don't sound anything like at all.
Record Label: Unknown Indie
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

more genius...


Posted by on Tue, 09 Dec 2008 08:54:00 GMT

Genius


Posted by on Sat, 06 Dec 2008 10:04:00 GMT

farewell, Odetta

Farewell to Odetta, one of the musical and spiritual giants of our time.  Another great one moves on out of our sight...http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId =97735199
Posted by on Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:43:00 GMT

Stand by Me... from Playing for Change


Posted by on Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:00:00 GMT

Songwriting Critiques

"With nothing can one approach a work of art so little as with critical words; they always come down to more or less happy misunderstandings. Things are not all so comprehensible and expressible as on...
Posted by on Sun, 24 Aug 2008 18:08:00 GMT

Advice for Songwriters -- A Career in the Arts

"If I were you I would prefer a short and courageous career...to one that would be prolonged by hedgings. What does it matter if by standing for the thing you really believe in, fighting for it, givin...
Posted by on Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:51:00 GMT

Vote for the Bosses!

"So let’s see. You work every day of the year, except for three lousy weeks. You make [generate] around a hundred thousand dollars. Your boss takes two thirds and gives you one third, and you gi...
Posted by on Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:36:00 GMT

The Journey

The Journey One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice-- though the whole house ...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:35:00 GMT

Give Them the Guns -- Woody Guthrie

"I took a bath this morning in six war speeches and a sprinkle of peace. Looks like everybody is declaring war against the forces of force. That's what you get for building up a big war machine. It sc...
Posted by on Sun, 03 Sep 2006 12:47:00 GMT

Billy Holliday quotes - is it music?

"I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you can, then it ain't music, it's close-order drill or exercise or yodeling or somethi...
Posted by on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 12:28:00 GMT