ROB THOMAS - THOMAS TO RELEASE KEEPSAKE MOVIE ABOUT LIFE ON THE ROAD

THOMAS TO RELEASE KEEPSAKE MOVIE ABOUT LIFE ON THE ROAD

Rocker ROB THOMAS is so impressed with the road movie director Gillian Grisman shot of his transition from matchbox twenty to a solo career, he's releasing it as a new film. The independent filmmaker shot 350 hours of footage of Thomas over two years after the rocker gave her all access to his life as part of a keepsake film. Thomas tells Billboard.com, "My wife and I decided to take over production and the payment of the film. "It became about a person who considers himself a songwriter. That's what I do. I come down in the morning, I sit down alone with a cup of coffee, and I sit at the piano or with a guitar in the studio and I write. "I got to go out and find that line between being a songwriter with integrity and being a force on the radio. Trying to figure out that line was what this movie became about." The film, My Secret Record or How I Learned To Stop Worrying + Love the Biz, recently premiered at the Nashville Film Festival in Tennessee, and features cameo appearances from Alicia Keys, Carlos Santana and John Mayer.