Artist of the Month

Tommy Womack

Tommy Womack is not only a gifted and remarkable singer/songwriter, but also a published author.  He has won prestigious Nashville awards and has quite a history, dating back to 1985 with the post-punk Bowling Green, Kentucky based band, Government Cheese, to the present time, with his 5th solo accomplishment, "There...I Said It!" due to be released Feb. 20, 2007, but you can get it here now!  Read Tommy's biography on this page, check out the discography, pictures, videos and music on the next page, and by all means...if Tommy is playing ANYWHERE near you, go see him perform and buy lots of stuff!!

bio courtesy of http://www.tommywomack.com

My name is Tommy Glynn Womack. Skot Willis once said I was the craziest person he’d ever met who had his life together. Todd Snider says I’m the only person he’s ever met in Nashville who’s crazier than he is. So I must be crazy, I guess. I can’t tell. Crazy for most folks must just be what normal feels like for me. 

I make records, I write. I play shows. And being an artist of, shall we say, minor repute, I am also compelled to spend my Mondays through Fridays at a company that employs 18,000 people, maintains a zero-tolerance drugs and alcohol policy, and - thankfully for me so far - an apparent zero-enforcement of such. Hell, I’d love them to piss-test me, actually; I’ll walk in there with a fresh hot cup of urine and a fistfull of prescriptions and say "yeah, I’m good for that, I’m good for that, and I’m good for that! And as for THAT, well that’s to keep me off the third-floor ledge of the building I work in, naked, with a spray-paint can in my hand and a whole lot to get off my chest!" 

More Facts! I live in Nashville, Tennessee, USA with my wife Beth, two cats, Pete & Shelley, and our beautiful boy Nathan.

From 1985 through 1992 I played in a band called Government Cheese. 

From 1992 through 1994 I played in a band called the bis-quits. 

In 1995, my book "Cheese Chronicles: The True Story of a Rock and Roll Band You’ve Never Heard Of" was published. 

I have two "hobbies". Firstly, I like to keep read about, and speculate on, the Historical Jesus, the real guy, who he really was, what he really said, etc. reading stuff by J.D. Crossan, A. N. Wilson and John Shelby Spong regarding such. That’s because I spent the first twenty-odd years of my life so deep in the Bible belt I didn’t even know there was one. Jesus was on every wall of my house and oftentimes twice. I don’t live much like that now, but needless to say it leaves it’s residual notions to be worked through in one’s mind. If you’d like my primary messiah pondering, click here. Otherwise, I’ll trouble you no further with it.

Secondly, I boast a reasonably well-honed facility for classic-era New York Mafia Geneology: the Gambinos, the Genoveses, the Bonannos, the Lucheeses and the Columbos. I like keeping up with those guys, you know, scannning the papers, keeping up with who’s in charge, who’s been arrrested, who’s been killed, etc. I don’t know why, but I do so love to keep up with such matters. I can probably name you all the leaders of the Gambino Crime Family in order since its inception, from Albert Anastasia onward, and most of the other families as well, for that matter. If you care to gossip (about the retired ones, thanks), e-mail me. 

Check out Tommy's MySpace site too:  myspace.com/tommywomack

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