Tori Mason

Bio:

Nashville singer/songwriter transplant (aren't we all???) originally from Kansas, been here since July 1995, and still love it. Started singing in church choir while in grade school. Picked up the guitar in junior high......bought the neighbor's garage sale guitar for $5, and a "John Denver Made Easy" songbook and taught myself how to play. Folks figured I was serious, bought me a nice classical guitar for my 16th birthday, and lessons. Started seriously writing after the death of a friend in 1992....good therapy, don't we all know. Joined a local band, Rocky J and the Runarounds, and sang backup as well as occassionally playing some original tunes, and honed my writing skills (still honing....). Took the plunge to Nashville. Currently have a great job, great friends, and always have the chance to hear great music.... If you're bored here, it's your own dang fault! Outdoors-y kind of gal....mountains, ocean, doesn't matter as long as it out! Inside is too stifling....energy, creativity, air, it all gets too compressed and stale inside. I'm much more productive, and happier, if I can be out in the sun and the wind and even the rain (but not lightning!). The Great Smoky Mountains is my "happy" place.....I've solved many a problem and written a few songs while on a good long hike. Favorite tshirt seen in Gatlinburg: "When the going gets tough, the tough go hiking!" :) Hope to keep doing the songwriting thing a while longer, hitting the writers nights a couple times a month, and maybe even recording an independent cd soon. But mostly, I just want to enjoy this journey called life. Life is way too short to waste, so hang on and enjoy the ride! (This page created by Mary of Yes_MAM Graphics, Little Rock AR - THANKS MARY!!!) ..

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Member Since:

August 20, 2005

Members:

I've recently become involved with a wonderful organization, Project Child Smiles. It teams up critically ill children and their families with songwriters. Please check out their MySpace at www.myspace.com/childsmiles!

Influences:

Favorites and influences, in no particular order: Jim Croce, Indigo Girls, Buddy Miller, Emmylou Harris, Nanci Griffith, James Taylor, John Denver, Gillian Welch, Allison Kraus, Chris Young, Seth Turner, Billy Hurst, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Eagles, Del McCoury Band, Kim Richey, Trisha Yearwood..... I can also remember Mom and Dad playing music on Sunday mornings, usually Tammy Wynette, The Statler Brothers, Johnny Cash, or Roger Miller. I can also remember lying on the floor in the living room, headphones on, listening to every album they had....Jim Croce, Carole King, Sonny and Cher, Mac Davis, Herb Albert, Tommy Roe, Andy Williams, Eddy Arnold, Grandpa Jones, and may others. Those records no doubt influenced my early love of all kinds of music, and helped instill a sense of being able to communicate through song and to touch a soul. Those songs certainly touched mine. That's what I hope my music can do, even if only one person. That's why I do what I do. Thanks for listening.

Sounds Like:

Singer/songwriter in the vein of Mary Chapin Carpenter, Nanci Griffith, and John Denver, with a little Emily Sailers thrown in for good measure! I've been told I could be the illigetimate love child of Karen Carpenter and John Denver............................