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Bob Malone is a pianist and singer-songwriter born in New Jersey. He has recorded eight records: The Darkest Part of the Night (1996), Bob Malone (1998), They All Laughed (1999), Like It Or Not (2001), Malone Alone (2003), Christmas Single (a Christmas single, 2004), Born Too Late (2006), and in 2007 a special Halloween release of three seasonally spooky tracks called Halloween. He recently released a video single entitled "No One Can Hurt You" (2008) and is in the recording/post-production stage of his next cd (title as of yet unreleased).


Malone has performed in venues across America and in Europe, Australia, and Japan. He logs over 100 dates a year both as a headliner and as an opener, and has appeared with Leon Russell, The Neville Brothers, Al Green, Boz Scaggs, The Manhattan Transfer, Marcia Ball, Arlo Guthrie, and Vonda Shepard. He has appeared on syndicated NPR shows “Car Talk,” “Acoustic Café,” “WoodSongs Old-Time Radio Hour,” and “Rock & Roots,”.

He was named the Acoustic Café “One To Watch” artist, and was featured on a Performing Songwriter Magazine Editors Choice compilation CD, as well as being voted one of the Best Unsigned Artists in LA five years in a row by Music Connection Magazine. He twice received the ASCAP Plus award. He won the 2006 Just Plain Folks Music Organization Award for (Male Singer Songwriter Album). In November 2007 he won "Songwriter of the Year" at the South Bay Music Awards.

A review in American Songwriter magazine said of Malone's work: “Blazing and beautiful. Burning and elegant. Subtle and expansive. Unique and timeless. Malone contains multitudes of rhythm, soul, jazz, blues, smoke and magic. He’s a pianist’s pianist; it sounds as if he’s slept inside a baby grand for years, so intimate is he with the alphabet of the ivories.” Blues Review said: “Take Tom Waits, Steely Dan, Dr. John, Louis Armstrong, and Harry Connick Jr., put ‘em in a drink shaker, add sweetener, and pour out Bob Malone….”

Bob Malone is married to musician Karen Nash. He lives in California. .