![]() “The guys (in Matchbox) have a good sense of what my solo stuff sounds like, so I think there were certain songs where they were just like ‘Well no, that sounds like something you would have on your solo record. “I was starting to write when we were doing the last Matchbox record,” Thomas said. ![]() Thomas began writing for “The Great Unknown” while he was working with his band, Matchbox Twenty, on that group’s 2013 album, “North.” ![]() He stops at Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio on Friday, Sept. Thomas began giving audiences a taste of “The Great Unknown” on tour last summer and he figures to have more of the new songs in his live set now that the album is out and he’s on tour again this year. “I think there are some really nice subdued moments in there, but this is a record that I was really conscious of the fact that I want to get out in front of a bunch of people and play it live and watch how they react to it.” “I think this record is back to kind of more of a bombastic sound overall,” he said. ![]() That meant this album wouldn’t be like the introspective “Cradlesong,” his 2013 sophomore solo effort. In making his third solo album, “The Great Unknown,” Rob Thomas kept the thought of how the songs would work in concert in his thoughts. ![]()
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