Howie Newman

Along with well-known cover tunes, including a bunch of Classic Rock, singer-songwriter Howie Newman mixes in a few of his own funny original songs. So if you head out to John Brewer’s Tavern in Malden on Friday, April 29, you’ll be hearing The Who, The Kinks, Tom Petty and Steely Dan as well as some ditties about cell phones, intergalactic garbage collection and baseball.

 A former sportswriter and currently a part-time radio broadcaster for the Lowell Spinners, Newman has penned a dozen or so baseball songs, including “Blasted in the Bleachers” and “It’s The End of the Curse and We Know It,” an R.E.M. parody about the 2004 Red Sox.

Newman has released two CDs of baseball songs, Baseball’s Greatest Hits, Volumes 1 and 2. Both albums have been accepted into the Baseball Hall of Fame Archive in Cooperstown, N.Y. He may also be singing songs from his recent full-length CD, Trust Me, You’ll Like It. 

“I love those great old songs from the ’60s, ’70s and ’80,” says Newman. “And I also like to slip in some of my own stuff once in a while. People seem to like the baseball songs. Either way, we always have a good time.”

 Newman’s songs have been heard on, 92.5 The River, WRKO, WEEI, the nationally syndicated Dr. Demento show, National Public Radio, WUMB-FM and many other stations across the country.

For additional information about Howie Newman, visit his Web site: www.howienewman.com