Artist description Powerful, jumpy, sometimes slightly snarky rock and roll stories with tight harmonies.

Music Style Power Pop Singer-Songwriter

Musical Influences Buddy Holly, XTC, Johnathan Richman, Pretenders, Everclear

Similar Artists Johnathan Richman, Violent Femmes, Peter Case, Marshall Crenshaw, Otis Redding, Johnny Cash, Everclear, Bruce Springsteen

Artist History Tony moved to New York from Toronto at the end of 1999. Falling in with the Est Village antifolk songwriter scene, he quickly made friends and developed a reputation as the smartest ass in the neighborhood. Despite this, he survived, and has put together this band... Sanjay (bass) and Alan (lead guitar) are a Indian-tinged folk-funk duo themselves, called Lunchin.

Group Members Tony Hightower - guitar & vocals; Alan Brock - lead guitar; Sanjay Kaul - bass; Aashish Pathak - drums; many guests from night to night, including magicians, actors and dancers.

Instruments guitar, guitar, bass, drums, lots of vocals, guest keyboards and horns

Albums Messiahs Galore (1997), A Single Angry Word (1999)

Press Reviews "He's an incredible, incredible writer." – Vue weekly (Edmonton) ... "The best writing anywhere." – broken pencil (Canada) ... "Tony Hightower's poppy as hell, but smarter than the heavens. This Toronto Native writes intelligent informed folk songs that are hooky enough to go straight to college radio. And his voice is strong and good enough to clearly carry his words through, so when he's funny, you know it. When he's poignant, you can tell. Whether talking about the end of modern civilization or a girl giving up boys, or an affair with a rock star who is categorically NOT Ani Difranco, you can hear the story, though not so well that you don't want to listen again. And again. And Again." - Gustav Plympton, AntiMatters Magazine (NYC)

Location New York, NY - USA

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