Today’s The Day!!

Hey Guys,
Well, the day has arrived! The new CD officially hits stores today. This week is very important in getting some sales happening at stores so I appreciate any help you all can give by going out and buying a copy this week. It’s a gift to have the opportunity to share music, so today is a real celebration for me, thanks for your support!
-Matt

Stories Behind The Songs…

All The Way
None of us can make it through life on our own. We are all prone to addictions and darkness that threaten to destroy us. Our culture has a way of either masking these symptoms or discarding people caught in addiction’s grasp. I believe the only hope we have is through Jesus and what He did for us through His death and resurrection. He gives us the power to live victorious. I have experienced that salvation and I wanted to express that journey in this song, “Come and save me, I can’t make it on my own.”

I Shall Believe
The idea that there is someone who waits with open arms and welcomes us home after we have strayed and wandered is so powerful to me. Though it’s the only song on the CD that I did not write (Sheryl Crow and Bill Bottrell wrote it), it feels so personal for me to sing these words, which for me are sung from the perspective of a son to a Father. I grew up without a Dad (my Father was killed in a car accident) and my Mom used to tell me that God was my Father in the absence of my Dad. That’s the perspective I have when I sing this song. The lyric was always vulnerable but for some reason to sing it as a son, gave it a new meaning for me and that has been really special.