Live! On Stage - Jonathan Richman featuring Tommy Larkin on drums January 21, 2009

Jonathan Richman has been writing songs, making records and performing live for most of his life, winning fans and making friends around the world with his guileless honesty and playfully catchy compositions. He's revered by countless fellow artists, and has built a remarkably loyal international audience through his tireless touring. His deceptively straightforward songs embody timeless qualities of humanity, optimism, emotional insight and a boundless sense of humor, untainted by cynicism or transient notions of hipness.

His newest recording is called Not So Much to Be Loved as to Love, his 21st album and his first collection of new material in three years. The album features thirteen openhearted, lovingly crafted songs, delivered in spare but often imaginative arrangements built around Jonathan's distinctive voice and guitar and the sensitive drumming of longtime sideman Tommy Larkins. Always possessing an ardent cult following, Richman has become better known in recent years thanks to a series of appearances on fan Conan O’Brien’s show as well as having a major part in the 1998 film, There’s Something About Mary, where he played half of a two-man Greek chorus that commented on the plot while performing in the framed action itself - Jonathon is shot at the end of the movie.
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