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Matt Ray

Oct 13, 2026

41:50
Well, Matt, tell me how you come into this and you're coming back together with other shows that you've done and what it means to put music to these stories and to this history.
42:02
I mean, it was kind of a spiritual experience for me.
42:07
You know, we started doing a lot of the writing during the pandemic.
42:12
I mean, we maybe wrote one or two right before, and then the rest of the first half of the songs were written during lockdown, essentially, which was awesome because it gave me some tasks to do, which I think was really helpful.
42:27
But the spiritual part wasn't so much that as it was...
42:34
You know, we've been talking a lot this week to people about the inspiration for this show and...
42:42
Some of it is that we grew up without queer songs.
46:10
Well, Matt, what has it been for you to take these themes that Taylor was just talking about and these ideas and put them to the vernacular of jazz and folk and gospel music?

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