Written and and arranged by Matt Floyd.  
Electric Guitar:  Kohl Weisman
Acoustic Guitar:  Matt Floyd
Banjo:  Matt Floyd
Bass:  Kohl Weisman (arrangement by Jack Katzenstein & Kohl)
Lead Vocals:  Dora Jarkowski
Back-up Vocals:  Matt Floyd and Kohl Weisman
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Help me lord, I'm on the path
Nothing can stop me or face my wrath.

I hear the rain, it's coming down
In white lightning, I will drown.

It clothed the kids, it bought you bread
Now 'cause of moonshine you want me dead.

CHORUS: Well I've been gone on that unfamiliar ride.
And now I've come and it's time for you to die.

You brought the law down on my head
And all the waters they ran bright red.

I got the gun and jumped the track
Baby you worried, but now I'm back.

CHORUS

So give it up, you better run
I'm a comin' you aint got no one.

BRIDGE

So kiss me babe, just one more time
This is your last chance to make things right

You loved me, you were my man
But baby you forced me, you forced my hand.

CHORUS

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All Rights Reserved
Recorded at Choate Rosemary Hall by Liz Walbridge
Copyright Matt Floyd, Kohl Weisman, Dora Jarkowski and Liz Walbridge 2013

Unfamiliar Ride

Written and and arranged by Matt Floyd.
Guitar: Matt Floyd
Lead vocals: Ayanna Coleman
Backup vocals: Matt Floyd
Percussion: Gian Gubler and Matt Floyd
Instrumentation: Matt Floyd
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Baby you wronged me,
My heart's been broken down.
Baby you wronged me,
And I never made a sound.

I thought you were an angel,
I believed what I saw.
I thought you were an angel,
I wasn't thinkin' at all.

Soon all will be made right,
Pretty soon you'll see.
Soon all will be made right,
You can't take my soul from me.

Oh you can't harm me
I'll lay my sorrows down.
You can't harm me,
I'll lay 'em deep in the ground.

CHORUS
Rise up...!
Good people, rise up.

I will be stronger,
Lord I will be free.
I will be stronger,
You can't ever have me.

I've got my devils,
I'll set them free.
I've got my devils,
They come everywhere with me.

BRIDGE
You love me, you hate me,
Your footprints are fading.
You love me, you hate me,
You cannot contain me.
You love me, you hate me,
Your footprints are fading.
You love me, you hate me,
But oh you can't take me...

CHORUS
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All Rights Reserved.
Recorded at the University of St Andrews, Scotland and elsewhere by Matt Floyd.
Copyright Matt Floyd, 2014.

Rise Up (demo)

An original guitar tune by Eli Orland featuring Matt Floyd. Eli and Matt were roommates freshman year of college in Middlebury Vermont. Two guitars, one take, one story.

The Old Man

An iphone "porch recording" of a late night jam with some friends in Nashville, Tennessee after too much moonshine.
Called "Ghosts of Mississippi"

Ghosts of Mississippi

An iPhone "porch recording" of a late night jam in Nashville Tennessee - this time to Old Crow Medicine Show's "Wagon Wheel."  


Wagon Wheel

Live performance of "Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong" at the Station Inn in Nashville, Tennessee.


Sweetheart You Done Me Wrong (Live)

Live recording of "Sittin' On Top of the World"
Recorded at the Station Inn in Nashville Tennessee
Check out that sick banjo! 

Sittin' On Top of the World (Live)

A live performance of a cover of Simon & Garfunkel's "The Boxer"
A fiddle, guitar and three-part harmony
Matt Floyd (lead vocals, guitar)
Charlie Calotta (vocals)
Adam Goo (vocals)
Mikayla Bentel (fiddle)

The Boxer Cover (Live)

A set of tunes played at the Swannanoa Gathering in Asheville, North Carolina.
A Bach Sonata, played on a tenor banjo,
A slow Scottish air "Archibald MacDonald of Keppoch",
A sick Cape Breton strathspey called "King George IV",
An original tune (a reel) written by its player, called "Time Twister",
and finally a great Irish reel called "Reconciliation"

Traditional Set (Live)

An original song of mine, performed live by myself (vocals, acoustic guitar), Dora Jarkowski (lead vocals) and Kohl Weisman (vocals, electric guitar).

Unfamiliar Ride (Live)

Foot stomping music.  Originals and covers; blues, bluegrass, celtic, folk, rock 

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