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About
"Likely the best singer-songwriter in our immediate family."
- Tony's Mom

The Empty Bench is an outlet for Singer/Songwriter Tony Stark.
With a wide variety of musical influences, an uncanny ability to play multiple instruments at a 4th grade level and a need to work out internal struggles mostly in major keys - he dares not limit himself.
Some Influences: Father John Misty, Bob Dylan, Bon Iver, Death Cab for Cutie, Radiohead, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Avett Brothers, Vulfpeck, James Taylor, Fleetwood Mac, Tom Waits, Loudon Wainwright III, Leon Redbone, Robert Johnson, Randy Newman, Queen, and CSNY
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