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Matt Jones
The title of
Matt Jones' last album, released in March of 2012, was a telling one: "Half Poison, Half Pure."
That title was a reflection of the state of mind Jones was in when he was writing and recording the songs on that disc in 2011. At the time, "in my personal life, I felt like I was stuck between two worlds," he says. So, many of the songs were, generally speaking, about "not wanting to move backward, but not knowing what direction to go in.”
In this case, not wanting to "move backward" was a reference to "drinking every night, and then getting a DUI when I ran my car into a post" in July of 2011, he says. So, he quit drinking, "and once I did, after a while, I found I was making better decisions."
So, in the last year or so, he's felt like he's been in "a much better place," says Jones—and as a result, for the last several months, he's been prolifically writing new songs that he feels are among the best he's ever written.
More after the jump…