1. Tommy Keene has a longtime cult following among fans of power pop.
10 Facts About Tommy Keene
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Tommy Keene graduated in 1976 from Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda, which was the alma mater of fellow musician Nils Lofgren, who went on to play and record with Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen.
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Tommy Keene first received critical acclaim with the pioneering Washington, DC rock band the Razz, who released several local independent singles.
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Tommy Keene recorded and released numerous albums on such labels as Dolphin, Geffen and Matador Records.
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Tommy Keene worked with producers T-Bone Burnett, Don Dixon, and R Walt Vincent.
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Tommy Keene continued to record and tour and released an album with Robert Pollard, of Guided by Voices, as 'The Keene Brothers.
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Tommy Keene played guitar on the Goo Goo Dolls' hit song, "Broadway", on their 1998 album, Dizzy Up The Girl.
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In 2011, Tommy Keene released his ninth original studio album, Behind the Parade on Second Motion Records.
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Judge had released Keene's 2010 two-disc retrospective Tommy Keene: You Hear Me and his previous release, Crashing The Ether.
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Tommy Keene died in his sleep on November 22,2017, at the age of 59 from cardiac arrest.