WHAT THE MEDIA HAS TO SAY
ABOUT TONY HIGHTOWER.

Read the TH interview that Themestream dared not print! (I'm not sure why either, actually.)

Read Good Times Magazine's lovely review of A Single Angry Word.

And at the Night Guide, Liz Smith (favorably!) compares Tony's songwriting to Alanis Morrissette and a Prevert.

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"This guy is quite possibly the best songwriter this country has seen, at least as pop gods go, since Joni [Mitchell] & Neil [Young] left town. There is no one I have heard who would be better suited to accept the lofty mantle handed down from Buddy [Holly] to [John] Lennon to [Elvis] Costello ... A worthy contender for the heavyweight champeenship, for sure."

– Valerie Zdenek, Under Duress (Toronto)

"To be honest, I like Tony's intricate ranty three-minute romances better than even the mighty Johnathan Richman's."

– eye weekly (Toronto)

"The cream of the anti-folk crop."

– Richard Gehr, Village Voice (NYC)

"Instantaneous, reactionary and compulsively momentary, he comes in the form of unrelenting post-ironic diatribes against cars, wars, passivity and possibility. Hightower writes high-velocity crit-speak that is unmatched in all my days ... Like an angry biker, he weaves effortlessly between smog-spewing road rodents, shouting expletives in the form of images."

– Hal Niedzviecki, Exclaim! (Canada)

"He's an incredible, incredible writer."

– Vue weekly (Edmonton)

"The best writing anywhere."

– broken pencil (Canada)

"Tony Hightower's poppy as hell, but smarter than the heavens. This Toronto Native writes intelligent informed folk songs that are hooky enough to go straight to college radio. And his voice is strong and good enough to clearly carry his words through, so when he's funny, you know it. When he's poignant, you can tell. Whether talking about the end of modern civilization or a girl giving up boys, or an affair with a rock star who is categorically NOT Ani Difranco, you can hear the story, though not so well that you don't want to listen again. And again. And Again."

- Gustav Plympton, AntiMatters Magazine (NYC)

"Tony Hightower is an Island native who has spent most of his adult years in Toronto. Now he's back in the area, sporting an excellent new CD, A Single Angry Word. Hightower performed several of his best numbers from the disc, including the wistful Annex in February, the playful Picaresco and Dina Doesn't Talk To Boys. He is a lively, funny performer, and a talent that really deserves to be heard."

- Richard Hughes, Good Times, February 22, 2000

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