Tom Wehrle

CLICK BELOW TO ORDER ONLINE, COMPLETE YOUR TOM WEHRLE COLLECTION TODAY!

"MAD CITY TRAGEDY"

iTunes

"CLOSURE"

iTunes | TomWehrle.com

"WHEN YOU CAN'T WAIT FOR TOMORROW"

iTunes | TomWehrle.com

"ROOM TO DREAM"

iTunes | TomWehrle.com

"SOMETHING YOU CAN'T FIND"

iTunes | TomWehrle.com







Other places to find me:
iTunes
Facebook
Twitter
iLike
Yahoo Music
Napster


For Digital downloads you should be able to find me on:
iTunes, Napster, Walmart, Yahoo Launch, MSN Music, Zune, Rhapsody, BuyMusic, Emusic, AOL's MusicNet, MusicMatch and many more.

Bio:

So you want to know a little about me, that's cool, I'm ok with that. I would find it even more cool if somehow right now, because you're reading this, I would be sent some sort of information about you that is equivalent to what you're ready about to read about me. Is that weird? Well if so, then I am, and I again have no problem with that either. Haha :)

Actually, I feel like updating this bio thing cause I've let it set for awhile and not updated it, so here goes...

My musical journey began back in the early 90's when after figuring out how to play a song by the name of For You by Michael W Smith. Most who read this probably will not remember how it once was popular and played on mainstream radio a decent amount of time. It starts off with this piano/keyboard that sounds really cool, thus why I wanted to learn it, and thankfully did. So I taught myself how to play piano...one problem though was that I really didn't understand what I was playing (which to this day, I don't "think" chords or theory when playing/writing) and my brother helped teach me some theory behind what I was actually doing. Then years later I gained interest in guitar, so I bought an acoustic guitar, it's the one I still use live, and taught myself how to play that as well. As far as writing goes, I like to write songs from either or, just depends on my mood. But my personal fav. will always be piano.

So, after being in a band that broke up, I had gotten a "real job" and was doing ok for myself when I decided to go in with a friend to start a recording studio, because we both loved music. Well as it turned out, that never really happened, but I ended up with enough studio gear to record my own stuff. So slowly I was teaching myself how to record (after watching it being done while recording with my band), and I started writing songs and recording them all by my lonesome self.

Then came 2001. My real job place went bankrupt and had informed me I was going to be let go, but I wouldn't know till it was going to happen. That was around July, and as it turned out, I was let go in October. At the time I was doing stuff with computers and all that great stuff, and because of 9/11 I knew it was going to be tough to find another job. But as it turned out, they didn't give me much notice, from what I remember, they told me one day when I was leaving that the next day was it. On the actual day my brother called me to tell me a place down in Nashville had called and asked for me to play at a coffee shop and wanted to know if I'd do it. At this point in time, I had never played any gigs on my own, but had recorded a few of my own songs, so I remember thinking to myself "one door is closing, and another is opening" - so I accepted.

You may be wondering why I went into all that detail about some silly story from back in 01 but, if that wouldn't have happened, I literally would not be writing this right now, nor would you be reading anything about me, or listening to music of mine. Make sense? I'm fairly confident that all those things led me to right where I am today. If 9/11 wouldn't have happened, I probably would have just gotten another job like the one I had. Granted, I hated doing pretty much the same thing day in and day out, and not sure if I could ever do that again. But alas, that event forced me into realizing that I should be doing what I love, not what I kind of liked...capeesh?

Back to business...after releasing two EP's in 2001 & 2002, I released my first LP by the title of Something You Can't Find in May of 2003. It brought about my first gigs at some colleges across the country. Even the American Music Awards caught note and named me one of the top 50 unsigned acts (yes, THE AMA's).

A little over 2 years later came the release of Room to Dream on Aug 31st of 2005, my 2nd studio album. More touring across the country forced me into buying a van which in turn led to over 20,000 miles being racked up on it in just 3 months. I have now played at over 100 colleges anywhere from Maine to California, all the way up to Oregon down to Florida, you get the idea. Not many independent artist can claim such a feat. I don't say that lightly, nor take it for granted. I've appreciated every opportunity I've been given, and hopefully, have made the most of them.

Back at it again, I tried my hand at something a little more raw and less poppy. That birthed When You Can't Wait for Tomorrow, which was released in August (another August release), this time on the 21st of 2007. There was very little programming on the album, and very little keyboard synths. I tried to keep it as natural sounding as possible (for which my budget prohibited).

After most albums, I feel like it very well could be my last one. I never know when or if I'm going to get another idea for another song that I think is better then the last. I have no idea at all. Well, as it turns out, I average on writing around 10 songs a year, and maybe half of those do I think are anything special. Needless to say, I found myself with more songs to record, and a couple older tunes that I thought I needed to get off my chest. So came Closure. I felt like releasing it let me put the past away with a lot of songs, and life in general the time. For example, I'll never forget writing the song "Running out of Time" in a hotel lobby in Helsinki, Finland. Not necessarily my favorite tune on the project, but the "Tom" that started down this journey into music back in 2001ish is a totally different person then I am now. Hopefully, that's for the better, as I'm trying to live life to the fullest everyday and not take tomorrow for granted. Closure was released on the fitting date of 11.10.09.

Well, now it's August 27th, 2010 (as of writing this). My 5th studio album "Mad City Tragedy was released a few weeks ago (on Aug 10th) and I've been receiving a lot of really good feedback on it. It's the first album I've ever done in which I played every instrument on it and...well, I did just about everything. It was a huge feet, but I'm incredibly proud to have it under my belt now. Back on August 16th I recorded 15 songs live on a piano, in one take fashion. We had it videotaped in HD as well and you can watch it all at youtube.com/tomwehrle - that's also been getting a lot of positive feedback too. What can I say, I've been incredibly blessed in my life...if you're reading this, you're a trooper...I applaud you...thanks for being curious, and/or a supporter of my music. I certainly can't do this alone, so thank you from the bottom of my heart for all you do to help me do what I love to do most.

That brings this to an end, if you'd like for some reason to get ahold me, feel free to write me on here, or email me at: tom at tomwehrle dot com - thanks for reading, and if you've liked anything you've heard from me, please try and support it by grabbing a cd off my site tomwehrle.com - it allows me to keep doing this and create new music :)

See ya on the road,
TW

ps...every so often I get on AIM, if you see me on, feel free to write and say hello...my sn is: tomwehrle (I know, very creative)