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PAUL NEWMAN formed as a trio in Austin, Texas at the end of 1995. Their first live show was in January of 1996. In the summer of 1996 Edward Robert was invited to join Craig McCaffery, Tony Nozero and Paul Newman in the band. They spent most of the next year writing and playing music as a four-piece before recording their debut album "Frames Per Second" during Spring 1997, released on Trance Syndicate in January 1998. After a brief US tour the band reconvened later in the year to record and release their follow-up album "Only Love Can Break Your Heart", also for Trance Syndicate.

Although summer 1999 saw the band split 50/50 between Texas and Chicago they still managed to get together long enough to record their third album: "Machine Is Not Broken". Initially pencilled in for release on Trance Syndicate, the label's untimely demise led to band to Chicago's My Pal God label who were more than happy to give them a new home.

Like their first two records, "Machine Is Not Broken" was recorded with Jason Ward in Austin, TX and continuing the `Paul Newman tradition" it is almost entirely instrumental. This new record builds on the previous groundwork the band has established over the past four years, further developing and refining their own brand of dynamic instrumental rock action. Although there is some singing when it's appropriate Paul Newman also uses keyboards and some machines to fill out their sound. Mostly though they rely primarily on the traditional guitar/bass/drums combo, always searching for new directions in which to take the strings and the drums. Eddie plays a Bass VI, by the way, an instrument somewhere roughly in-between a guitar and a bass, but they do things about the same way that a two-guitar band would, for the most part.

A collection of Paul Newman's rarer material, "Re-issue!" is the second full-length release on My Pal God by Paul Newman, and their fourth such endeavor since 1998. This historical document covers Paul Newman's evolution from their first single up through material that did not make
it's way onto their most recent full-length "Machine is Not Broken" in March of 2001.

Although the members of Paul Newman are still living in three different cities (Austin,Texas; Chicago, Illnois; New York, New York State), the balance is shifting towards NYC, and the group are planning to make their next album there in the summer of 2001. "Hope springs eternal," or something to that effect.

Tony also plays in a band called Drums and Tuba, whose third full-length Cd came out on My Pal God in October 1999. Eddie Robert recently released a CD for Emperor Jones under the name Cyrus Rego, his long-time alter-ego. The rest of the band is tinkering with this and that in between Paul Newman activities.