(and it’s guitars, mini vans, indie-rock music)
Latest Blog posts
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All the Weary (Feels): Pod Blog
“All the weary world awaits you, when you’re on your own…” Last year, “All the Weary World” was in my top three streamed songs. I started writing it in the summer of 2009. 15 years ago…long before: 2025: I binged watched Ted Lasso in the basement 2024: I was the “best music cha” ever. 2023:
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My Life My Heart
“On New Year’s Eve I held a light and I held it high…exposing awkward dances…” A few weeks ago, I lent an old blazer of mine to my son who is a senior in high school. When he put it on, I saw the breast pocket was pronounced. I have a habit of putting papers
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My favorite Christmas Carol*
*this year. As someone with seasonal depression, “In the bleak mid-winter” based on the poem by Christina Rossetti from 1872, always gets me “in the feels.” I recently learned this Victorian era poet suffered from “melancholy” (depression) herself. The first and last stanza say so much with an economy of words: “earth as hard as
Folk Singer for Hire
Bars, coffee houses, churches, libraries, camps, campfires…wherever people gather, I can add lively and surprising entertainment or erichment
Have fiddle will travel
I enjoy backing up bands and singers with violin or viola. I have contributed to many recordings as a session player over the years. I also will play a solo set with storytelling.
photo credit: Tim Gray. Live photos from a concert at St. Paul’s Church, Mishawaka, IN.
The Music of Tom Adamson 