Rob Thomas reflects on his new solo album and 30 years of Matchbox Twenty

Rob Thomas reflects on his new solo album and 30 years of Matchbox Twenty

For singer-songwriter Rob Thomas, the melody almost always comes first, no matter whether he’s working on a tune for a new solo album or for his longtime band Matchbox Twenty. “You go fishing and you find a melody,” Thomas says on a recent video call from his tour bus as it barreled across Ohio on the All Night Days Tour in support of his new solo album of the same name. “There’s a certain chord progression that, for some reason that day, sounds…