Matt Wertz

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Everything's Right 02:47 Tools
Carolina 03:06 Tools
I Will Not Take My Love Away 02:24 Tools
The Way I Feel 03:36 Tools
Heartbreaker 00:00 Tools
With You, Tonight 00:00 Tools
Red Meets Blue 04:28 Tools
Counting to 100 00:00 Tools
Marianne 02:54 Tools
Like The Last Time 00:00 Tools
Over You 03:11 Tools
Sweetness In Starlight 00:00 Tools
Naturally 00:00 Tools
The Day Forever Died 00:00 Tools
All I Know 02:35 Tools
Capitol City 00:00 Tools
That For You 00:00 Tools
Lonely Tonight 00:00 Tools
Falling Off the Face of the Earth 00:00 Tools
This Moment 00:00 Tools
Summer Sun 00:00 Tools
Someone Like You 03:45 Tools
Wesley, Why? 00:00 Tools
Even the Streets 00:00 Tools
Wade Through the Night 00:00 Tools
Somedays 00:00 Tools
Waiting 00:00 Tools
Yesterday Morning 00:00 Tools
Back In June 00:00 Tools
Keep Faith 00:00 Tools
Happytimes 00:00 Tools
Somebody's Gonna Love You 03:18 Tools
Running Back to You 04:35 Tools
Faith and Compromise 00:00 Tools
I'm Sorry, Mary 00:00 Tools
Sell Out 00:00 Tools
Everything Will Be Alright 02:55 Tools
519 00:00 Tools
Song For the Irrational 00:00 Tools
External Fix-It Remedies 00:00 Tools
Honest Man 00:00 Tools
Feels so Right 00:00 Tools
Don't Come Easy 00:00 Tools
Wanderin' Eyes 00:00 Tools
Nobody's You 00:00 Tools
In On A Whim 00:00 Tools
Easier Tonight 00:00 Tools
For the First Time 00:00 Tools
Snow Globe 00:00 Tools
Gonna Be Good 00:00 Tools
behind a smile 00:00 Tools
Family 00:00 Tools
Get to You 00:00 Tools
I Just Realized 00:00 Tools
Red 00:00 Tools
Lemonade 00:00 Tools
Slow Motion 00:00 Tools
Walking In A Winter Wonderland 00:00 Tools
come away 00:00 Tools
Sing My Lonesome Away 00:00 Tools
Unexpected Love 00:00 Tools
Christmas Just Ain't Christmas (Without You) 00:00 Tools
Whenever You Love Somebody 00:00 Tools
Gun Shy (Change) 00:00 Tools
Somebody New 00:00 Tools
What I Know Right Now 00:00 Tools
intro 00:00 Tools
White Christmas 00:00 Tools
All Because 00:00 Tools
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Comfort 00:00 Tools
Voices 00:00 Tools
Loved By You 00:00 Tools
Christmas Just Does This To Me 00:00 Tools
Last Good Girl 00:00 Tools
Tennessee Christmas 00:00 Tools
Committed 00:00 Tools
O Holy Night 00:00 Tools
Lealand Lane 00:00 Tools
Wake Up, Wake Up 00:00 Tools
Summer Sun Intro 00:00 Tools
Christmas In The City 00:00 Tools
Wandering Eyes 00:00 Tools
Patient Heart 00:00 Tools
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas 00:00 Tools
Christmastime Is Here 00:00 Tools
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Heartbreaker Intro 00:00 Tools
The Way I Feel (Live) 00:00 Tools
Yesterday Morning Intro 00:00 Tools
Easy Things Hard 00:00 Tools
Take It Or Leave It 00:00 Tools
Way Back to Yesterday 00:00 Tools
Shine 00:00 Tools
How I Remember You 00:00 Tools
Sunny Day 00:00 Tools
Sleigh Ride 00:00 Tools
What Child Is This 00:00 Tools
All I Ever Wanted 00:00 Tools
Smoke 00:00 Tools
Even The Streets Intro 00:00 Tools
Bring It on Back 00:00 Tools
Everclose 00:00 Tools
i will let you down 00:00 Tools
Y K W Y K 00:00 Tools
Thing About Freedom 00:00 Tools
I'm Sorry, Mary (Acoustic) 00:00 Tools
05:19 00:00 Tools
Lord Knows How Hard I've Tried 00:00 Tools
Hold on to Me 00:00 Tools
Stars Align 00:00 Tools
Hot In Herre 00:00 Tools
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Famliy 00:00 Tools
Old Flame 00:00 Tools
Counting To 100 (Rendition) 00:00 Tools
Unexpected Love (Amazon Original) 00:00 Tools
Fruit Of Another 00:00 Tools
Green Pastures 00:00 Tools
When It Feels Like This 00:00 Tools
To Be Free 00:00 Tools
Easier Said Than Done 00:00 Tools
Everything's Right / / Acoustic 00:00 Tools
Hold on, We're Going Home 00:00 Tools
5:19 (acoustic) 00:00 Tools
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Come Away (Original 2003 B-Side) 00:00 Tools
Long Night in Tennessee (Original 2003 B-Side) 00:00 Tools
In The Night 00:00 Tools
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Unexpected Love / / Acoustic 00:00 Tools
Carolina / / Acoustic 00:00 Tools
Sweetness in Starlight / / Acoustic 00:00 Tools
Best Song 00:00 Tools
Counting To 100 (Acoustic) 00:00 Tools
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Ok 00:00 Tools
Someone Like You / / Acoustic 00:00 Tools
Ooh La La 00:00 Tools
Matt Wertz - Carolina 00:00 Tools
Step Back 00:00 Tools
Please Forgive Me 00:00 Tools
The Day Forever Died (Producer's Commentary) 00:00 Tools
Gun Shy (Change) / / Acoustic 00:00 Tools
Long Night in Tennessee 00:00 Tools
5-19 00:00 Tools
Wake Up 00:00 Tools
Marianne (Producer's Commentary) 00:00 Tools
Red Meets Blue (Acoustic) 00:00 Tools
Everything's Right (Producer's Commentary) 00:00 Tools
Counting to 100 (Producer's Commentary) 00:00 Tools
5 19 03:04 Tools
I’m Sorry Mary 00:00 Tools
21 - O Holy Night - Matt Wertz 00:00 Tools
Everything in Between 00:00 Tools
Wesley Why 00:00 Tools
The Best Song of My Life 00:00 Tools
5:19 / / Acoustic 00:00 Tools
Red Meets Blue (Producer's Commentary) 00:00 Tools
All Because of You 00:00 Tools
5.19 00:00 Tools
Wesley, Why? (Producer's Commentary) 00:00 Tools
All I Know (Producer's Commentary) 00:00 Tools
Sweetness in Starlight (Producer's Commentary) 00:00 Tools
Snow Globe / / Acoustic 00:00 Tools
That for You (Producer's Commentary) 00:00 Tools
This Moment Is You 00:00 Tools
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11 Wake Up 00:00 Tools
Wade Through the Night (Producer's Commentary) 00:00 Tools
01. Matt Wertz - Everything's Right 00:00 Tools
Matt Wertz - 519 00:00 Tools
What Child Is This? (Greensleeves) 00:00 Tools
Matt Wertz- Christmas Just Ain't Christmas (Without You) 00:00 Tools
Long Night in Tennessee (Producer's Commentary) 00:00 Tools
03. Matt Wertz - 519 00:00 Tools
04. Matt Wertz - Red 00:00 Tools
Come Away (Producer's Commentary) 00:00 Tools
Falling off the Face of the Earth (Producer's Commentary) 00:00 Tools
Counting to 100 (Live) 00:00 Tools
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Christmastime Is Here [Instrumental] 00:00 Tools
09. Matt Wertz - Waiting 00:00 Tools
12. Matt Wertz - Back In June 00:00 Tools
Somebody New (Remix) 00:00 Tools
07. Matt Wertz - Keep Faith 00:00 Tools
What She'd Do To Me 00:00 Tools
Ykwyk 00:00 Tools
What Child Is This (Greensleeves) 00:00 Tools
08. Matt Wertz - Marianne 00:00 Tools
519 @ 4UsOnly.biz 00:00 Tools
05. Matt Wertz - Carolina 00:00 Tools
11. Matt Wertz - Wummer Sun 00:00 Tools
Sleigh Ride [Instrumental] 00:00 Tools
Caroline 00:00 Tools
Everything's Right (Acoustic) 00:00 Tools
10. Matt Wertz - With You, Tonight 00:00 Tools
Matt Wertz - I'm sorry, Mary 00:00 Tools
Red Meets Blue (Live) 00:00 Tools
Matt Wertz - Everything's Right 00:00 Tools
Carolina @ 4UsOnly.biz 00:00 Tools
Carolina (acoustic) 00:00 Tools
I’m Sorry, Mary 00:00 Tools
Matt Wertz- Best Song 00:00 Tools
Wanderin Eyes 00:00 Tools
Winter Wonderland 00:00 Tools
Back in June (feat. Andee Davis) 00:00 Tools
5:19 (Live) 00:00 Tools
External Fixit Remedie 00:00 Tools
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The Way I Feel (Acoustic) 00:00 Tools
Count to 100 00:00 Tools
The Way I Feel @ 4UsOnly.biz 00:00 Tools
Come Away With Me 00:00 Tools
Wesley Why? 00:00 Tools
Carolina (Live) 00:00 Tools
What She'd Do 00:00 Tools
Counting to 100 <-> Michael Jackson Medley 00:00 Tools
Everything\'s Right 00:00 Tools
Five Nineteen 00:00 Tools
Day Forever Died (Outro) 00:00 Tools
Long Night In Tennesee 00:00 Tools
What She'd Do (Outro) 00:00 Tools
Everything’s Right 00:00 Tools
Twenty Three Places 00:00 Tools
Storytime 00:00 Tools
Let Me Love You * 00:00 Tools
You've Got A Friend 00:00 Tools
04 The Way I feel 00:00 Tools
Summer Sun (Acoustic) 00:00 Tools
Sweetness In Starlight (Best Quality) 00:00 Tools
Long Night 00:00 Tools
Falling Off the Face of the Earth (Live) 00:00 Tools
Red Meets Blue - One - Red Meets Blue 00:00 Tools
Let Me Love You 00:00 Tools
Everything's Right (Live) 00:00 Tools
With You, Tonight @ 4UsOnly.biz 00:00 Tools
5:19 (acústica ) 00:00 Tools
I Will Let You Down (Acoustic) 00:00 Tools
Everything's Right (Acoustic) [Bonus Track] 00:00 Tools
5_19 00:00 Tools
All I Know (Acoustic) 00:00 Tools
Heartbreaker @ 4UsOnly.biz 00:00 Tools
Wanderin` Eyes 00:00 Tools
Everything's Right @ 4UsOnly.biz 00:00 Tools
Matt Wertz - I Will Not Take My Love Away 00:00 Tools
Intro to... 00:00 Tools
02 02 Matt Wertz - Carolina 00:00 Tools
No Woman No Cry 00:00 Tools
Matt Wertz - With You, Tonight 00:00 Tools
Yesterday Morning (Live) 00:00 Tools
Carolina (Acoustic) [Bonus Track] 00:00 Tools
5:19 (Acoustic) [Bonus Track] 00:00 Tools
Heartbreaker (Live) 00:00 Tools
Summer Sun (Acoustic) [Bonus Track] 00:00 Tools
Marianne (Live) 00:00 Tools
lucky denver mint 00:00 Tools
Over You @ 4UsOnly.biz 00:00 Tools
All I Know (live) 00:00 Tools
I Will Not Take My 00:00 Tools
03 Heartbreaker 00:00 Tools
Falling Off The Face 00:00 Tools
Counting to 100 (Michael Jackson Medley) 00:00 Tools
01 The Way I Feel 00:00 Tools
Some One Like You (Acoustic) [Bonus Track] 00:00 Tools
Sweetness and Starlight 00:00 Tools
Couting to 100 00:00 Tools
Everything`s Right 00:00 Tools
Faith and Comprimise 00:00 Tools
Matt Wertz - All I Know 00:00 Tools
Somedays z - Somedays 00:00 Tools
The Way I Feel (Acoustic) [Bonus Track] 00:00 Tools
Lord Knows How Hard I've Tried (Bonus Track) 00:00 Tools
Everything Is Right 00:00 Tools
The Day Forever Died (live) 00:00 Tools
The Day Forever 00:00 Tools
07 Red Meets Blue (Acoustic) 00:00 Tools
02 Carolina 00:00 Tools
22 All I know 00:00 Tools
Capitol City @ 4UsOnly.biz 00:00 Tools
The Way I Feel [live] 00:00 Tools
Christmas Just Ain't Christmas 00:00 Tools
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The Day Forever Died > King of Wishful Thinking $ 00:00 Tools
O Holy Night r4 00:00 Tools
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Wesley, Why? (Live) 00:00 Tools
Matt Wertz / Comfort, Comfort (Isaiah 40:1-3) 00:00 Tools
5:19 (Album) 00:00 Tools
Like The Last Time @ 4UsOnly.biz 00:00 Tools
12Like The Last Time 00:00 Tools
Carolina [Original]/Original 00:00 Tools
The Day Forever Died > King of Wishful Thinking * 00:00 Tools
Wade Through the Night (Live) 00:00 Tools
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king of wishful thinking 00:00 Tools
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Like the Last Time (Live) 00:00 Tools
07 Like The Last Time 00:00 Tools
Hide and Seek 00:00 Tools
Carolina (Album) 00:00 Tools
Wanderin' Eyes (B-Side) 00:00 Tools
Counting To One Hundred 00:00 Tools
Everything´s Right 00:00 Tools
Marianne @ 4UsOnly.biz 00:00 Tools
Somebody's Gonna Love You(just you and me trying to say good bye) 00:00 Tools
Capitol City (Album) 00:00 Tools
Somebody`s Gonna Love You 00:00 Tools
Red @ 4UsOnly.biz 00:00 Tools
Everthing's Right 00:00 Tools
5:19 [Original]/Original 00:00 Tools
Wesley 00:00 Tools
09 Naturally 00:00 Tools
Someone Like You - Matt Wertz 00:00 Tools
Matt Wertz - The Day Forever Died 00:00 Tools
The Way I Feel (feat. Marc Broussard) 00:00 Tools
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With You' Tonight 00:00 Tools
Best Behavior 00:00 Tools
I Will Not Take My Love Away (Live) 00:00 Tools
Comfort, Comfort (Isaiah 40:1-3) 00:00 Tools
The Way I Feel (Album) 00:00 Tools
Heartbreaker (Album) 00:00 Tools
08 With You, Tonight 00:00 Tools
Over You (Album) 00:00 Tools
With You, Tonight (Album) 00:00 Tools
I Will Not Take My Love Away (Album) 00:00 Tools
Naturally @ 4UsOnly.biz 00:00 Tools
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one 00:00 Tools
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maryann 00:00 Tools
06 I Will Not Take My Love Away 00:00 Tools
14Red Meets Blue 00:00 Tools
Pennies And Jesus 00:00 Tools
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Counting To 100 @ 4UsOnly.biz 00:00 Tools
Comfort, Comfort 00:00 Tools
Everything's Right [Original] 00:00 Tools
10 Capitol City 00:00 Tools
Like The Last Time (Album) 00:00 Tools
04 Over You 00:00 Tools
Naturally (Album) 00:00 Tools
Hot In Here 00:00 Tools
5;19 00:00 Tools
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Counting to 100 [live] 00:00 Tools
Hiding Behind this Smile 00:00 Tools
Heartbreaker [Original]/Original 00:00 Tools
Waiting @ 4UsOnly.biz 00:00 Tools
13Wanderin' Eyes 00:00 Tools
Matt Wertz - What She'd Do To Me 00:00 Tools
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Counting to 100 [Original] 00:00 Tools
16I'm Sorry, Mary 00:00 Tools
The Way I Feel [Original]/Original 00:00 Tools
Hiding Behind a Smile (live) 00:00 Tools
Marrianne 00:00 Tools
Mullet Story 00:00 Tools
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Outro 00:00 Tools
'I Just Realized' (music video) 00:00 Tools
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23 Places 00:00 Tools
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Everything 00:00 Tools
Even the Streets (Live) 00:00 Tools
Back In June @ 4UsOnly.biz 00:00 Tools
Matt Wertz - 519-Part 1 00:00 Tools
Summer Sun (Live) 00:00 Tools
Walkin In A Winter Wonderland 00:00 Tools
In On A Whim @ 4UsOnly.biz 00:00 Tools
15Honest Man 00:00 Tools
Sellout 00:00 Tools
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somebodys gonna love you 00:00 Tools
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Everything's Right [live] 00:00 Tools
Red Meets Blue [live] 00:00 Tools
Matt on Mocha Club 00:00 Tools
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My Kinda Love 00:00 Tools
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Fine Just Like the Last Time 00:00 Tools
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Because of You 00:00 Tools
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Matt Wertz is a singer/songwriter from Liberty, Missouri. Wertz gained a considerable fan base by performing at Young Life camps, after releasing "Somedays", his first album. He has released three studio albums, and one EP, which have all been produced by himself and Ed Cash with an exception on the EP where his best friend Dave Barnes helped produce the album. Aside from touring with such acts as Jamie, Gavin Degraw, Matt Nathanson and Jars of Clay, he has headlined several tours nationally in the early to mid-2000s. On September 19, 2006, Matt released his third studio album, Everything In Between. -------------------- An excerpt from the Matt Wertz facebook fan page (as of 12/17/09) Hi. My name is Matt Wertz, and this is my bio. Usually these aren’t written by the artist, at least at this level- but as I was trying to decide who could tell my story the best, I felt like that person was me. So, I’d like to be the one to tell you where I come from, why I write music, what I’ve seen happen along the way, and where I see things going according to my finite vision. I’m from Liberty, Missouri, but have called Nashville, Tennessee, home for the last seven years. It seems fitting that I would be writing my own biography on the cusp of my first major label release, just as I did eight years ago before releasing my first independent album. This time, though, I’m not trying to play it off like I didn’t write it. I grew up in a home where I was encouraged to explore and dive into whatever grabbed my attention. Sports? Sure. Art? You bet. Girls? Yep. Music? Obviously. There was no expectation other than to do my best “and let God do the rest,” as my Mom always says. With that kind of freedom end encouragement, I did just that—I played sports for the fun of them, made art because I loved to create, and eventually, I wrote and performed music… because I had to. My love for visual art led me eight hours from home to the University of Illinois, where I studied Industrial Design. As a result of that experience, music became my respite—my escape from the responsibility of class work. Dorm life served to provide a small, built–in audience who graciously embraced my first attempts at songwriting. Before I knew it, I was recording versions of those songs on my roommate’s computer and burning copies for my new cohabiting fans. Eventually I started playing concerts outside the walls of Scott Hall and made the leap to register my name as a dot-com. That may not seem like a big deal today, but at the time, those were the early, shaky steps I took toward a full-fledged career in the music industry. Early on, I was shown many graces—like a loan from my parents to pay for the first 1,000 copies of my debut record, Somedays (2001). To assuage their fear that I was throwing my life away, I democratically assured them that I’d get a job after the summer was over. Needless to say, that never happened. What did happen was that my summer burst at the seams with bookings at camps for high schoolers… which spilled over into a fall schedule of touring their hometowns… which set up a spring full of shows at colleges… followed by more summer camps. Rinse, wash, repeat—and you have the first few years of my career. The days between then and now have been a series of “baby steps” that have somehow afforded me success as an independent artist. All these things really kicked into gear after the release of Twenty Three Places (2003), the first record I recorded with producer and friend, Ed Cash. The album featured some of the songs that set the tone for the rest of my career—“Everything’s Right,” “Marianne,” “Red Meets Blue,” and “Counting to 100”— songs that are still staples in my set today. On the heels of the Twenty Three Places release, people started taking notice. Creative Artists Agency got involved booking my shows. Nettwerk took over my management. And a bunch of record labels started knocking down my door. But none of them felt like a good fit. So what did I do? I did what I’d always done: I recorded another record on my own and kept touring. Ed and I began working on Everything in Between in February 2005, hitting the studio sporadically whenever I had breaks from the road. “The Way I Feel” was the first song we approached and it provided the compass for the record, ushering in an energy and musical depth that redirected my career to a new level. The tone of the record was my musical response to what I learned playing hundreds of clubs a year—I realized the need for up-tempo, lively songs to get the room going. The album also meant a lot to me personally—it was written and recorded during my first dating relationship since college, and much of the album followed the progress of the relationship. “5:19” was written on July 7, 2005, at 5:19 p.m., while I waited for the phone call that would inevitably be the end of that relationship. Everything in Between was the first record I released with any kind of organized push behind it. We came out of the gates strong, charting high on the iTunes pop charts and filming a video for the song “Carolina.” Some of the songs landed in unexpected places—on TV’s “Brothers and Sisters” and in theaters via movies like My Super Ex-Girlfriend. Since the start of my career, I’ve sold around 75,000 albums, played shows with Ben Folds, Jamie Cullum, and One Republic, as well as headlined sold-out clubs around the country. This was all done, mind you, as an independent artist. Over time, momentum built and more labels took notice, including Universal Republic. Finally I encountered a label that felt right, a label that could pull the trigger, a label that understood where I was coming from. And so, I signed. The record that will be released on Universal Republic is called Under Summer Sun and it is a combination of my favorite songs from my first few independent releases, like “5:19” and “Everything’s Right,” as well as four new songs. Among the new tracks are “Waiting,” an introspective bedroom song that deals with the fear that I’m “growing old but not quite growing up,” and “Summer Sun,” my best effort at a nostalgic summer love song in the vein of Stevie Wonder musically and Don Henley emotionally. And the rest of the songs will strike a chord with anyone who enjoys soulful, carefree, singer-songwriter pop music. How do I know? Because these songs emanate from the pages of my life, and I’ve seen first-hand the way that people have connected with them from their own experiences. In eight years of touring through hundreds of venues, playing three albums’ worth of songs for thousands of listeners, that connection is what fuels my passion. Ultimately, the thing that you and I have here—between the words and the chords and the lights and the beats—that is the thing that encourages me to keep singing. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.