Why Rob Thomas isn’t scared about whether his new music will be played on the radio

Going into his new solo album, “Chip Tooth Smile,’ one thing Rob Thomas wanted to accomplish was to make sure there would be no cases of mistaken identity with the record.
That’s not to say there was any confusion that the three previous solo albums by the Matchbox Twenty frontman were the work of Thomas. But particularly with his previous effort, the 2015 release “The Great Unknown,” Thomas thinks a little of himself may have gotten lost in the final product, as he