The New Mat Kearney Record

I got to have diner with Mat Kearney a few years ago after accidentally running into him in Nashville. This was right about the time he'd become a household name. It took Mat about half a second to put me at ease and we ended up talking for an hour or more about screenwriting, about movies, about the stuff of stories. He told me that had always been his passion, that making music was a distant second. Really? Because God knows the man is one of America's greatest songwriters. I caught him at an acoustic show here in Portland where a sold-out crowd rose to their feet and exploded about halfway through Mat's three-minute, detailed musical narration of all the things he loves about Portland, all without missing a beat, all like he'd written it as a song years ago. Turns out he was making it up as he went along.

Mat's new record is out this week. It's been number one on I-tunes for days. It's called Young Love and here's the first release. If you're at work, listening with headphones on, feel free to clap along. Congrats, Mat. I'd love to see that screenplay someday, but we would surely miss the music.

The New Mat Kearney Record is a post from: Donald Miller's Blog