Bob Dylan/Dock Boggs/Tom Waits/Buffy St. Marie/Leonard Cohen/Charlie Poole/My Dad, Jesse House/His Brothers, Roy & Owen House/Robert Johnson/Hank Williams/Hazel Dickens/David Olney
the songwriters I first met and ran with in the mid-70's when I got to Nashville, especially Rob Stanley/Mark Germino/ and John Allingham who consistently re-enforced and inspired all the differences and freedoms a particular muse just might demand and allow
Writers & Poets: Todd Moore & Dennis Gulling/ Kell Robertson/ Cormac McCarthy/ Charles Bukowski/ Knute Hamsun/ Jim Thompson
Too many others/ Everything I've absorbed my 60 years the planet from all the songs I heard on AM radio growing up
from all the other singers/songwriters the streets of Nashville, some I've known decades/ some who were just passing through
and the many poems and novels too numerous to name or even some recall/
Southern Novelists/ the Beat Poets/Burroughs/French novelists like Gide and Genet/ Baudelaire & Rimbaud/ Women poets of their generation who spoke more to me than the men of their generation Plath/Sexton/Adrienne Rich
It just goes on and on...
Sounds Like
Coffin Hinges Creaking/ A Controlled Delirium/Something Real Hard & Hungry/ A Razor Intelligence/ A Long Time Ago/Dancing In The Eyes Of The Lord
No band, just me. Though Scott Chase has accompanied me through the years, he also has other things he's about. I appreciate our shared experiences through the years. He produced and had a definite influence most of my recordings. He's hell on a washboard, the lacquer bucket, the saw, the wrenches, mouth harp, and whatever else he might find, pick up on his way to the gig. A wide-open mind all kinds of music and "possibilities of music" a perfectly laid back foil to my somewhat similar attitude toward how I hear where a song might go or might could get away with that wonderful flash a song doesn't haven't to be like this, resolve this, end like this all the time, and he's open all that too; plus he's one of them thick and thin friends years come and go it all changes some ways, some ways it has to, our lives evolve into families, varying cicumstances; some friends the bond holds, the link whatever.I admire and respect Scott way beyond the music. And the music would be enough on its own.
Have enjoyed the presence Tommy Goldsmith backing me many shows/recordings through the years on guitar, mandolin and vocals;
and whenever she is available both live and in the studio, Tomi Lunsford has added an ethereal voice to the unkempt universe the ghostly inhabitants my "old, weird America," and I appreciate the incredible genius they both have brought to my efforts. I dare say my sound and life would be a bit paler without the inspiration both have brought me.
By the way... I like that you are now a 105 year old female! I guess things really do change over time! LOL!!! Just kidding! Nice to see you're doing well and still rockin' out!
How ya doin Tom...its been awhile buddy...i got a song on my myspace jukebox called Flaming Hearts ya might like...i will be wintering here in Reykjavik looks like i gotta good band comin together been focusing mainly on writing this summer...have a Grrrrrrrrrrrreat Weekend!!!
Thanks for adding me. I'll keep an eye on your page and see what your up to. Please let me know when your buying merch and I'll help ya make it look sweet and at a great price...
Thanks so much and good luck! Bill Nishanian Music Imprints bill@musicimprints.com 615-829-6858
That would be Senfeidins bar in Louisville where everything goes....i went there to see Honeyhighway Band....wow!!! folks beating each other up one minute then huggin a few minutes later a lotta of wild shit goin on but nobody gettin thrown out a nice juke joint ambience....maybe not exactly a good accoustic venue but Scott Mertz and i played a few songs accoustic before Honey went on and it went down just fine...neither one of us give a damn if people talk while we sang n play anyway hahaha!!!! MAY THE ROAD RISE WITH YOU
Hey Tom dont know why i didnt see ya while dartin around U.S. while based in Louisville earlier this year n since then wanderin Spain & Morocco now back in Reykjavik , Iceland....the goin and arriving is so good its just the inbetweens that get so sticky....hope yr doin good as it gets my freind...Infinite Feckin Blessins...Brother M....what the hell a moniker is a moniker i never apolagize but i do remember you from time to time even this time
Hi Tom! Thanks for the add; nice to meet you and your great music. Romi is one of my favourits and her music is very much my taste. Like yours. You are right, the word is not that big as it was.... Wish you a wonderful week, take care. All the best from Oslo, Unni
This Saturday, March 14th, at Norm's River Road House, it's Slow Cooker Night, and it's free! Here's the line-up...
7:00 Russ Mason 7:25 Billie Sawyer 7:50 Hungrytown 8:20 TOM HOUSE 8:45 Sam Anderson 9:10 Larry Reynolds 9:35 Jon Jackson 10:00 Fred Koller 10:30 Supe du Jour 11:00 Flat River Band 11:30 John Scott Sherrill & FRB
Thanks for the lovely comment. Hope Hazel & Alice don't sue me for this one (which did not spring from my own mind...but someone very close....) Miss Stephanie
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