Bob Malone is a pianist, singer-songwriter, composer and arranger born in New Jersey

New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...

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Bob Malone grew up in Milton, New Jersey

New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...

, where he started piano lessons at nine – within a year he could play anything put in front of him – and dreamed of being a classical musician. For years he listened only to classical music, but hearing Billy Joel

Billy Joel

William Martin "Billy" Joel is an American musician and pianist, singer-songwriter, and classical composer. Since releasing his first hit song, "Piano Man", in 1973, Joel has become the sixth best-selling recording artist and the third best-selling solo artist in the United States, according to...

's Scenes From An Italian Restaurant

Scenes From An Italian Restaurant

"Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" is a song from Billy Joel's 1977 album The Stranger.Although never released as a single, it has become one of Joel's most celebrated compositions among fans, appearing on most of his compilation albums. The song is effectively a medley of three individual songs...

 in a Sears store was a revelation for him, and within a few years he was writing his own songs, and playing with rock bands. Since then, Malone has recorded six records.

He recorded his first CD in 1996 and started raking in a multitude of accolades and awards, including Artist of the Year and Singer/Songwriter Album of the Year at the Just Plain Folks 2006 Music Awards, Songwriter of the Year at the 2007 South Bay Music Awards, and the ASCAP Plus Award.

Ain’t What You Know, is the new album, produced and created with producer-guitarist Bob DeMarco (Dr. Phil, Entertainment Tonight, The Rachel Ray, Hardcopy, The Insider). It’s Malone’s seventh album, and the first to be released both on vinyl and CD.

Malone has performed in venues across America

Americas

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 and in Europe

Europe

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, Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

, and Japan

Japan

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. He logs over 100 dates a year both as a headliner and as an opener.

Bob Malone is married to musician Karen Nash

Karen Nash

Born in Texas and raised in Southern California, Karen Nash plays alt-country roots music with the skillfully crafted turn of phrase and topical content of a great folksinger. Known for her impassioned songs of social injustice and troubled love, Ms...

. He lives in California.

On The Road

Bob Malone moved to Hollywood in 1996, and has embarked on an endless tour, playing an average of 100 shows a year. Since then, he has opened for and/or played with Rickie Lee Jones

Rickie Lee Jones

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, The Neville Brothers

The Neville Brothers

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, Rev. Al Green

Al Green

Albert Greene , better known as Al Green, is an American gospel and soul music singer. He reached the peak of his popularity in the 1970s, with hit singles such as "You Oughta Be With Me", "I'm Still In Love With You", "Love and Happiness", and "Let's Stay Together"...

, Boz Scaggs

Boz Scaggs

William Royce "Boz" Scaggs is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist. He gained fame in the 1970s with several Top 20 hit singles in the United States, along with the #2 album, Silk Degrees. Scaggs continues to write, record music and tour.-Early life and career:Scaggs was born in Canton,...

, Vonda Shepard

Vonda Shepard

Vonda Shepard is an American pop/rock singer. She appeared as a regular in the television show Ally McBeal from seasons 1-5 in which she played a resident performer at the bar where the show's characters drank after work. She plays piano, guitar, and bass.-Biography:Vonda Shepard was born in New...

, Arlo Guthrie

Arlo Guthrie

Arlo Davy Guthrie is an American folk singer. Like his father, Woody Guthrie, Arlo often sings songs of protest against social injustice...

, and many others.

List of other artists he has opened for and/or played with:

Manhattan Transfer

The Manhattan Transfer

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Leon Russell

Leon Russell

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The Laura Love Band 

The Bobs

The Bobs

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Richie Havens

Richie Havens

Richard P. "Richie" Havens is an African American folk singer and guitarist. He is best known for his intense, rhythmic guitar style , soulful covers of pop and folk songs, and his opening performance at the 1969 Woodstock Festival.-Career:Born in Brooklyn, Havens was the eldest of nine children...

 

Maria Muldaur

Maria Muldaur

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Subdudes 

Austin Lounge Lizards

Austin Lounge Lizards

The Austin Lounge Lizards are a band from Austin, Texas formed in 1980. The band includes founding members Hank Card and Conrad Deisler, along with Darcie Deaville and Bruce Jones...

 

Marc Ford

Marc Ford

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BeauSoleil

Beausoleil

BeauSoleil is an American musical group specializing in Cajun music. Based in Lafayette, Louisiana, the group members are brothers Michael Doucet and David Doucet , Jimmy Breaux , Billy Ware , Tommy Alesi , and Mitchell Reed .-Band history:Founded in 1975, BeauSoleil BeauSoleil (French, beautiful...

 

The Blasters

The Blasters

The Blasters are a rock and roll music group formed in 1979 in Downey, California, by brothers Phil Alvin and Dave Alvin , with bass guitarist John Bazz and drummer Bill Bateman. Phil Alvin explained the origin of the band's name: "I thought Joe Turner’s backup band on Atlantic records – I had...

 

Trout Fishing In America

Trout Fishing in America (band)

Trout Fishing in America is a musical duo which performs folk rock and children's music. The duo is composed of Keith Grimwood and Ezra Idlet...

 

J. Geils & Bluestime 

Rev. Billy C. Wirtz 

Saffire - The Uppity Blues Women

Saffire - The Uppity Blues Women

Saffire - The Uppity Blues Women was a three-woman blues musical ensemble in the Washington, D.C. area. It was founded in 1987 by Ann Rabson, Gaye Adegbalola and Earlene Lewis. Lewis separated from the band in 1992 and was replaced by Andra Faye...

 

Average White Band 

Jimmy Lafave

Jimmy LaFave

Jimmy LaFave is an American singer-songwriter and folk musician born in Wills Point, Texas, a small farming community located near Dallas. At a young age, LaFave's family moved to the Dallas suburb of Mesquite, Texas where he attended junior high and high school. By the early teens LaFave was...

 

Frank Marino

Frank Marino

Frank Marino , born November 20, 1954, in Montreal, is the guitarist and leader of Canadian hard rock band Mahogany Rush. Often compared to Jimi Hendrix, he is acknowledged as one of the best and most underrated guitarists of the 1970s.-Biography and career:After playing drums since he was five,...

 

Acoustic Alchemy

Acoustic Alchemy

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Strunz & Farah

Strunz & Farah

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Robert Earl Keen

Robert Earl Keen

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Eric Burdon

Eric Burdon

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ReBirth Brass Band

Rebirth Brass Band

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Marcia Ball

Marcia Ball

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Buckwheat Zydeco

Buckwheat Zydeco

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Patty Larkin

Patty Larkin

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Dan Hicks & his Hot Licks 

Johnny Johnson

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Paul Rogers 

Todd Snider

Todd Snider

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C.J. Chenier 

Roomful Of Blues

Roomful of Blues

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Paul Thorn

Paul Thorn

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Fred Eaglesmith

Fred Eaglesmith

Frederick John Elgersma , known by the stage name Fred Eaglesmith, is a Canadian alternative country singer-songwriter, one of nine children raised by a farming family in rural Southern Ontario. As a teenager Eaglesmith hopped a freight train out to Western Canada, and began writing songs and...

 

Duke Robillard

Duke Robillard

Michael John "Duke" Robillard is an American blues musician.After playing in various bands and working for the Guild Guitar Company, he co-founded the band Roomful of Blues with pianist Al Copley in 1967. He has also been a member of The Fabulous Thunderbirds which included Kim Wilson, replacing...

Discography

• The Darkest Part of the Night (1996)
• Bob Malone (1998)
• Like It Or Not (2001)
• Malone Alone (2003)
• "You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch"/"The After Christmas Song" (Single, 2004)
• Born Too Late (2006)
• "Halloween"/"So What If It's Halloween" (Single, 2007)
• Ain't What You Know (2009)

Line up for Malone's band

• Larry Goldman - tenor saxophone and clarinet
• Steve Stassi - trumpet
• Lynn Keller- electric bass
• Karen Nash
  Karen Nash
  Born in Texas and raised in Southern California, Karen Nash plays alt-country roots music with the skillfully crafted turn of phrase and topical content of a great folksinger. Known for her impassioned songs of social injustice and troubled love, Ms...
  
   - vocals
• Renee Safier -vocals
• Debra Dobkin - percussion/vocals
• Kelly Fitzgerald - vocals
• Jeff Dellasanti

External links

• Bob Malone yahoo music