Austin teens in recovery record over 300 healing songs

AUSTIN (KXAN) — On a plot of land near South Congress Avenue sits the Phoenix House. Teenagers go to school during the day and get treatment for drug addiction at night. The facility has been helping teens fight addiction for decades, but in recent years started incorporating music into the regimen.
“Every week we come in here, decide a subject, and then we write a song and everyone collaborates,” explains studio director, Matt Smith. “As a lifelong musicia