Tony Maxwell was born into a musical family in Flint, Michigan, USA. After finishing school, he began playing clubs in Flint, with the help of local newspaper editor Michael Moore. As a musician with literary interests growing up in gritty, industrial Flint, Maxwell learned to write songs that addressed the big themes, but in unpretentious, hard-hitting language. His songs are confessional, angry, melancholic, confrontational and philosophical. But they are always highly personal, usually addressing a significant other directly, like private letters put to music.
