...in the land of rhinestones

so this is my blog. hi. my name's newton dominey. i play music, mostly of my own creation, that falls into the wide genre of folk-roots-indie-pop-rock. people always ask me, "who do you sound like?" i am very bad at answering this question, but i'll give it a shot: if you like listening to the lemonheads/evan dando, elvis costello, big star, neil young, and ryan adams, i think you'll like listening to me. (side note: musicians absolutely (sarcasm alert) LOVE that question. just like filmmakers like it when you ask whose movies they imitate or when you ask a painter whose work they copy. i know it's a semi-necessary question, but we at least like to pretend that we're original.) there, that's done.

i'm from texas and i live in nashville, tn. because i've been scolded recently for making the comment that tennessee sucks, i'll just say that i enjoy living here but that the humidity doesn't quite agree with me. i've been here for a while, long enough anyway to remember when bar nashville was the ace of clubs (and had go-go dancer cages), 328 performance hall was awesome, the nashville knights were the only hockey club in town and downtown was scary.

i'm going to try to use this as a more casual way to let people know about shows and other goings on. if i can, i'll try to do some photo and song uploads. if i can't, you can always see plenty of pictures and hear plenty of songs at newtondominey.net or at myspace.com/newtondominey.