Joel and Maryann Speak with Matchbox Twenty’s Rob Thomas and Paul Doucette

Matchbox Twenty is scheduled to perform tomorrow night at PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, NJ. Then they'll take a ride to South Jersey to play for the crowd at Freedom Mortgage Pavillion in Camden, NJ.

Yesterday, Rob Thomas and Paul Doucette from the band took some time out of their tour schedule to spend a few minutes with Joel and Maryann in the Morning. They discussed a number of things including their fifty-plus date "Slow Dream" tour, their latest album "Where the Light Goes," and how their career was almost over before it ever really got started.

Check out Rob and Paul's full interview with Joel and Maryann here...

The band has sold over 40 million records worldwide, has multiple Grammy Award nominations, and played to millions of fans in arenas, amphitheaters, and stadiums all over the world.

Matchbox Twenty's new single is “Wild Dogs (Running In A Slow Dream),” and the album marks their first new music release in over a decade. The song is on their fifth studio album, Where The Light Goes from Atlantic Records. The album is produced by Gregg Wattenberg with Paul Doucette and Kyle Cook.

Rob Thomas has released five solo albums and received three Grammy Awards, eleven BMI Awards, the first-ever Songwriters Hall of Fame Hal David Starlight Award, two Billboard "Songwriter of the Year" honors, and many other accolades. Paul Doucette has scored and contributed original music to film and television series such as Utopia, For All Mankind, and more.

For many, when Fleetwood Mac is mentioned, they immediately think of the contributions of Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham. However, Christine McVie is responsible for writing some of the band's best songs. Here just five Fleetwood Mac songs that she wrote/co-wrote.

"Don't Stop" peaked at #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and would famously serve as the theme to Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential campaign. The band was even persuaded to reunite for the first time since 1982 to perform “Don’t Stop” at the inaugural ball in 1993.

Fun fact: While “You Make Loving Fun” was written by Christine McVie about her affair with Fleetwood Mac’s lighting director, she told then-husband/bassist John McVie it was about her dog.

Christine McVie said of the moving piano ballad in a June 2017 interview with People, “For some peculiar reason I wrote ‘Songbird’ in half an hour. I’ve never been able to figure out how I did that. I woke up in the middle of the night and the song was there in my brain, chords lyrics melody, everything. I played it in my bedroom and didn’t have anything to tape it on. So I had to stay awake all night so I wouldn’t forget it and I came in the next morning to the studio and had [producer] Ken Callait put it on a 2-track. That was how the song ended up being. I don’t know where that came from. I wished it would happen more often, but it hasn’t.”

“Oh Daddy” was inspired by Mick Fleetwood, who was the only father in the band at that time, even though some allege the track was another track about McVie’s affair with Fleetwood Mac’s lighting director. According to Setlist.fm, the last time the band played the track live was on November 30, 1997 at the USAir Arena in Landover, MD. 

The last single released from 1975's Fleetwood Mac, "Say You Love Me" would peak on the Billboard Hot 100 chart at #11.

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