Howie Newman

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All my CDs are now available on CD Baby, where you can pay with a credit card. For details about my new release, Baseball's Greatest Hits, Volume 2, click here. You can also order CDs directly from me (see below).

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    Trust Me, You'll Like It

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    Baseball's Greatest Hits, Volume 2

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    Lyrics

    Baseball's Greatest Hits, Volume 1

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    Here We Go Again

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By ordering directly, you can have the CDs autographed and/or personalized. In addition, I have some vinyl records from the early days.

Prices                                                                                                                           Trust Me, You’ll Like It, $12
Baseball’s Greatest Hits, Volume 2, $8
Baseball’s Greatest Hits, Volume 1, $8
Here We Go Again, $5

Payments by check, money order or PayPal are accepted. Please make checks payable to Howie Newman. For Paypal, use the following e-mail address hjnewman@verizon.net and send an e-mail detailing your order.

Include $2 for domestic shipping for each item ordered. Shipping is free with the order of three or more items. For shipping outside of the U.S., please send an e-mail for rates.

If you’d like to send a check, please contact me at hjnewman@verizon.net for the mailing address.

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CD reviews

Trust Me, You'll Like It

Indie Music Stop
C.W. Ross
This release is loaded with 45 minutes of music that blends satire and comedy with rock, country and folk styles of music. All the songs are well put together with great music and cleverly written lyrics that bring them to life. The lyrics deal with everything from cell phones and bad drivers to aging softball players. The CD does take a more serious tone on several of the songs that deal with dating and love. Instruments like the flute, clarinet, saxophone, banjo, mandolin and others that really add a fresh finished sound to the songs.

I really recommend you get this CD and give it a listen. It works well on so many different musical levels.

Wildy's World
Trust Me, You’ll Like It is funny, sometimes poignant, and entertaining. It runs the gamut from bizarre (an ode to former Red Sox first baseman Doug Mientkiewicz) to sweet (“Middle Age Love”), with all stops in between. Some might almost call this a comedy record, but I think a better assessment would be to say that Howie Newman is a musician who tells you some funny stories about life.

Most anyone over 30 will understand the sentiment of “Weekend Warrior”, whether you are one or not. “Never Say Never” is a look at growing up, and how we sometimes we pass by our greatest pleasures in the name of being mature. Re-discovering those pleasures can re-kindle the fire for life.

Trust Me, You’ll Like It is a mirror in which we all might find a little of ourselves, our family, and our day-to-day. The music is excellent and Newman has put together one of the best backing bands in the Boston scene. The songs are funny and warm. You’ll find yourself pulling this disc out from time to time when you need a step back. Definitely a keeper!

Victory Review
Tom Petersen
Boy, was he ever right! Whimsical Boston troubadour Howie Newman is a scream, particularly if you are 40-something. He has a special talent for expressing those things that we often think but rarely discuss or are too polite to bring up.

"Everybody's Talking on the Phone," he observes, but goes on to wonder what the heck all these people have to discuss. He also grumps, amusingly, about Boston traffic, and snow. The best, and funniest, songs are about the slow escape of youth.

The temptation is to cut up the lyric sheet (included) and mail the various songs to friends to whom the subjects apply - with the rest staying on the fridge at home. Newman has been getting some spins on Dr. Demento and Mad Man Moskowitz, but you gotta get the whole record. Trust me.

Rob Carlson
Singer-songwriter and member of Modern Man
Howie Newman is tuneful and tasty with a wry sense of humor. Not only that, but his CD is perfectly round. I particularly enjoyed the hole in the center.

Folk and Acoustic Music Exchange (FAME)
Mark S. Tucker
The thing about Howie Newman is that he's of a Martin Mull-ish bent: He’s a slice of, and satire on, middle America. Featured on the CD is the more-than-tasty guitar work of Duke Levine, who played with Mary Chapin Carpenter and is currently gigging with Aimee Mann.

Recessed in the background is Paul Kochanski's unobtrusive but spot-on bass quitar. Jim Gambino's piano makes me thirsty for a Beck's draft straight from the tap. Mostly, this is gently humorous good-timey folk-rock with a number of cool one-liners (“you don't have to shovel rain”) and mellow listenability. Nice instrumental progression in the middle eight, too. My favorite? "Pushin' 30" but there are several standouts.

Baseball's Greatest Hits, Volume 2

mlb.com                                                                                                                    Doug Miller
From the opening words of "Why Did You Go, Johnny Damon?" on Howie Newman’s latest album, Baseball's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2, this Boston-based folk rocker, humorist, sports journalist and public relations maven shows you exactly why he belongs on this list [of indie rock artists with baseball on their mind]. It's his second album of songs entirely based on the National Pastime, and all of them are as clever, biting and original as the Damon song.

WICN-FM (Worcester, Mass.)                                                                                       Nick Noble                                                                                                                   Baseball’s Greatest Hits, Volume 2 is a classic contribution to American popular culture. Nothing lends itself to our national pastime more than the folk music genre, and no one exemplifies it more than the creative sound of Howie Newman.

Wildy's World
“Mendoza Line” may be one of the greatest baseball songs ever written. What else can you say about an American rockabilly tune written about a shortstop from Mexico who once hit .198 for an entire season? You also absolutely must check out “It's The End Of The Curse and We Know It,” an R.E.M. spoof … about Boston Red Sox finally breaking "The Curse of the Bambino" with their 2004 World Series championship. Howie Newman is always entertaining, and for a Red Sox fan he's not a bad guy. Baseball fans will get a kick out of it, as will fans of country-tinged folk rock. This is definitely a worthwhile 20 minutes spent!

KRKO-AM (Seattle)
Jeff "The Fish" Aaron                                                                                                    Howie Newman's Baseball's Greatest Hits, Volume 2 is an awesome collection of songs. For the first time in 10 years I took Led Zeppelin out of my CD player and replaced it with Howie's disc. "Mendoza Line" is my new "Stairway to Heaven."