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"Achilles' Heel" available now!

Still Water
I put this song on the end of the CD because it’s a song about resolution and making peace with what you have. To me, it’s the moment of calmness that happens when you realize you don’t care anymore. This song was kind of a moment of clarity for me and I’m glad Al and I got it recorded when we did.

10 12
This is dedicated to all the victims and survivors of 9/11. My heart goes out to you for the tragedy you endured and taught so many of us with.

The Rover Overture
This is a completely new tune built off the bass and drums of an earlier version. This song was written to pay homage to my guitar teacher Bob Murnahan. It uses scales and ideas I probably would have never been exposed to without his direction. The new version is true to the old design but has, I think, a cooler less calculated approach. This song gets its name from a misprint that occurred in a newspaper article that was written to promote me teaching in a great little town called Circleville. The newspaper requested my resume to complete the article and somehow, when the paper went to print, my teacher’s name mysteriously got switched from Bob to “Rover” Murnahan. We all had a good laugh over it and the name kind of stuck.

Matt Venus - Project Star Gazer available now!

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