Matchbox Twenty & Counting Crows' Summer Roadtrip Playlist

Where The Light Goes

One Hit Love

Yourself or Someone Like You

Exile on Mainstream

Can't Let You Go

This is a collection of songs I personally wrote, both the music and the lyrics. It’s a fun yet deeply personal project that leans into themes of love, loss, and nostalgia. I spent time in studios with talented session players to create realistic demos that capture the emotion behind each song. These tracks were written to be discovered and recorded by other artists who connect with their stories. If you’d like to record one, email me at lizthemusicmanager@gmail.com and I’ll send the lyrics and publishing information. I hope you enjoy listening and feel a little of what I felt when writing them.

Woodstock

"Wasted Love" by City and Colour. 
New album "If I Should Go Before You" will be released October 9, 2015.

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If I Should Go Before You

Wasted Love

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North

Overjoyed

How Long

The Way

Mad Season

The Burn

More Than You Think You Are

All I Need

The Head And The Heart

Sounds Like Hallelujah

Shine Like It Does: The Anthology (1979-1997)

Good Times (with Jimmy Barnes)

Men Amongst Mountains

Keep Going

The Very Last Day

Hades Pleads

Emotionalism (Bonus Track Version)

I Would Be Sad

Formed in Florida, Matchbox Twenty entered the world with a blockbuster -- 1996's YOURSELF OR SOMEONE LIKE YOU. The debut set spawned five hit singles -- "Push," "3 am," "Real World," "Long Day" and "Back 2 Good" and snagged an RIAA Diamond Award certification for U.S. sales exceeding more than 12 million to date. Thomas also raised the band's profile by co-writing and singing on Santana's Grammy Award-winning 1999 smash "Smooth." Matchbox Twenty maintained the momentum with MAD SEASON in 2000 and "MORE THAN YOU THINK YOU ARE in 2002, both of which went multi-platinum and continued to spit out hits such as "Bent," "Unwell," "If You're Gone," "Bright Lights" and "Disease."

But after three albums of hard work and equally hard touring, Matchbox Twenty was ready for a break. Thomas released a pair of Top 5 solo albums which contained several #1 singles, Doucette worked with his band The Break and Repair Method and wrote film music, while Cook led the New Left. The hiatus not only renewed Matchbox Twenty as a band but also seasoned the individual members even further as they came back together for 2007's EXILE ON MAINSTREAM, a greatest hits collection that sported six inspired new tracks which were co-written by the band for the first time ever and included their biggest selling single to date “How Far We’ve Come”. 

In addition to more than 30 million records sold worldwide, Matchbox Twenty has also earned countless accolades, including five Grammy nominations, four American Music Award nods, the 2004 People’s Choice Award for “Favorite Musical Group, and they were named “Best New Band” in the 1997 Rolling Stone Readers Poll.

After EXILE ON MAINSTREAM's Top 5 success, Matchbox Twenty continued the collaborative process as it headed towards NORTH. The romantic "Overjoyed," according to both Thomas and Doucette, was "the first time we felt like we had something special”. Kyle Cook took lead vocals on the incredible ballad "The Way," which he and Doucette penned together. "She's So Mean," meanwhile, represents a "storytelling exercise" during which Thomas, Doucette and Cook sat around a microphone free styling lyrics that they eventually sculpted into the cautionary tale about a hard-to-handle woman who Doucette promises bears no similarity to anyone in the group members' real lives. Listening deeper to NORTH reveals even more different nuances, approaches and feels because of the group-writing dynamic.
 
"Matchbox Twenty is pretty all-encompassing," Doucette says. "Once it gets rolling, we just devote all our time and energy to that. I can speak for everybody on this; it's the thing we hold the most dear because it's the thing we built the longest, so we want to give it its due. We don't make records that often anymore, so when we do we want to devote our time and energy to not only doing it; but also bringing that music to the fans."

The Way

Matchbox Twenty

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