Rob Thomas is celebrating a couple of musical anniversaries this year.

It’s been 30 years since he co-founded Matchbox Twenty from the ashes of Tabitha’s Secret in Orlando, Florida. And it’s been 20 years since he stepped out of the band he still fronts to make his first solo album, the double-platinum “… Something To Be.”

“I’m fortunate that the job I do is literally part of the fabric of my life, but it’s a weird thing to get to this point,” Thomas, 53 — who also had Grammy Award-winning success co-writing and singing Santana’s “Smooth” in 1999 — says via Zoom from his home in New York. “Everything about it feels simultaneously like it’s happened forever and it just started a couple days ago. You spend a whole lot of time on it, and then it just pops up on you. ‘Well … that’s right, it

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