Though he cites Van Morrison, Elvis Costello, and Al Green as musical favorites, Matchbox Twenty's singer-songwriter Rob Thomas plays music cut from a different cloth. While he has certainly expressed his inner rage and soul's discontent via song since M20's first single, "Push," his band works a far meatier spectrum akin to the grunge bands of previous years (Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Nirvana), albeit with a catchier attack. As Thomas grows as a songwriter and musician (something of which he's clearly capable, given his hugely successful, Grammy-winning "Smooth" collaboration with Carlos Santana), it wouldn't be surprising to hear Thomas fronting a very different band in a few years.

Still a relatively young group, Matchbox Twenty formed after Thomas played in a series of high school bands and met drummer Paul Doucette and bassist Brian Yale. After a few uneventful years spent learning their craft and touring locally, the trio then found guitarist Adam Gaynor (who had been working at Criteria Recording in Miami) and guitarist Kyle Cook (who had been attending the Atlanta Institute Of Music). The newly formed fivesome took their Southern sound to producer Matt Serletic, who had had great success with Collective Soul; the resulting demos caught the ear of Lava/Atlantic Records, so M20 immediately went back into the studio with Serletic and cut their multi-multiplatinum 1996 debut, Yourself Or Someone Like You.

It was four years before the band returned with sophomore album Mad Season; perhaps to demonstrate how much they'd grown and matured, for this release they officially changed their name from Matchbox 20 to Matchbox Twenty. Despite the lessening in momentum and the potentially confusing moniker switch, Mad Season was also a success, yielding the hit singles "Bent" and "If You're Gone." Two years later, Matchbox Twenty returned with More Than You Think You Are, hoping to pick up where they left off, both commercially and creatively.

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