The Nightwatchman is the solo project of American musician Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine, Street Sweeper Social Club and former Audioslave).

Morello created the identity of the Nightwatchman, inspired by Bruce Springsteen's The Ghost of Tom Joad album,[1] when a desire to return to political activism in his music struck him in 2003, after over a year of playing non-activist rock in Audioslave.

Morello first saw him performing at a concert c. 1994, playing "fearlessly" before a crowd of 8,000 people in a tent alongside big-name rock bands of the time.

[4] The Nightwatchman first began playing political acoustic folk music in a Los Angeles coffeehouse before a small crowd,[3] and soon after went on Billy Bragg's Tell Us the Truth Tour.

with the ultimate goal of "informing music fans, and exposing and challenging the failures of the major media outlets in the United States.

Other prominent musicians who Morello shared the stage with during the One Man Revolution tour includes, Serj Tankian, Perry Farrell, Jon Foreman from Switchfoot, Shooter Jennings, Nuno Bettencourt, Sen Dog from Cypress Hill, Jill Sobule, Boots Riley, Alexi Murdoch, Wayne Kramer from MC5, Slash and many others.

Two songs off the record, "Midnight in the City of Destruction" (about New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina) and "King of Hell" (written about Guantanamo Bay detention camp), had previously been leaked on the Nightwatchman MySpace or performed during live sets.