Category: Tom Songs BTS
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All the Weary (Feels)
“All the weary world awaits you, when you’re on your own…” Last year, “All the Weary World” was in my top 3 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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Why the Crickets?
Three weeks ago, I put up a new acoustic album on streaming… “Lost in the Cosmos.” Today, Apple for Artists sent me play stats for the week of Oct. 10-16…0…that is, zero streams on Apple Music. “Crickets,” as they say in the music world. But in its first week, it had 54 streams on Spotify…
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“Lost Album” preview mp3s
Here’s two fun, retro-rock songs from my album to be released on streaming Easter weekend called, “They Still Make Sunsets, Don’t They.” It’s a project I began over ten years ago. Hence the “lost album” description. I love this gold-flake background image for the single cover. In 2013 and 2015 I had a handful of…
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Playing for crickets…
And wouldn’t have it any other way. How is it that 2021 feels like last year?..Not almost 4 years ago!? I confess I’ve been so busy launching my podcast and working with gigging bands in these “post-Covid years” that I really have put my songwriting on the back burner, time-wise. But a large piece of…
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Video Postcards
See and hear me play new and old tunes in unique places. See them through my eyes. Visit my YouTube page and see the playlist. Special guests often join the fun. Videos are added regularly. I’ve been to Goshen, Marion, Columbus, Pokagon, Rochester, Kokomo, Rensselaer, Lake Waubee. I’m going to South Bend, Mishiwaka, Valparaiso, and…
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O Indiana, Vol. 2
I was driving home to Angola from Kokomo via Hwy 24. It was a sunny but cold March morning. The Night before I was the house musician at a live event for the Dove Faith Cafe at Rhum Muisc Academy in Kokomo, IN. I played songs that spoke to my Faith in general. In my…
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Never Really Over
In February 2015 my musical activity was at an all time low. I sat in the empty house alone just after sunset. In the storage room, I found an old guitar of mine left behind from the move. It was a house where my wife and children had lived happily for 6 years. I had…
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