My guest today wasn’t a musician or songwriter in high school – he was a soccer player! But in mid-college, he experienced a major paradigm shift in his life, stopped some pretty hard partying and started playing guitar. Unable to play cover songs well, he began to write his own. That was 1.6 million albums sold and 2.5 billion streams ago. Woah…How did that happen? Listen up as I chat with the one and only Mat Kearney!
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Things we talked about:
- His early life as a skater, soccer player and making up songs to rap tracks
- Experimenting with a friend’s guitar, college with a major in literature
- How that early life informed what would become his unique musical style
- His first vocal lessons with me
- The difference focusing on lyric-to-heart made in Mat’s singing
- The green sticker (that I couldn’t find!)
- How his style morphed from free style rap to folk/pop in a great pocket
- The core job of an artist
- A story of creating hit song ‘Closer To Love’
- The pressure of a hit career numbing out joy; rediscovering that joy in reconnecting to vocal
- Streaming as a financial boon for the recordings he owns
- His kids discovering his music lessons
- Writing ‘THE’ song for Oregon; playing his hometown
Here’s one of Mat’s hits:
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