Release Date: 08 October 2021
Label: Schoolkids Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 634457061293
Release Date: 11 February 2022
Label: Schoolkids Records
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 634457061286
Description
Tommy Womack - My new record is called I Thought I Was Fine and its great.
Right, I'm not going to say it stinks, am I. If you like me, you'll love this new one. If you don't like me, you might be surprised. If you've never heard of me (that's most of you), this could be the start of a beautiful friendship.
It's a rock and roll record. I'm categorized as Americana because this business loves putting labels on people. Yes, there's a couple of country-ish songs on it, I do live in Nashville, and my southern accent is what it is, but I had an epiphany one day. I realized, hey, I hate dobros. And if I hear another song about a train in the key of G, somebody's gonna get hurt. I realized I'm 58 years old, I've survived a horrendous car crash, I've had cancer three times, and this might be my final shot ' so I wanted to go back to my first love while there's still time.
Who ME is can be summed up by saying I'm a songwriter and an author. I've won the 'Best Song' award in the Nashville Scene Critics Poll twice. My three books (including Cheese Chronicles, which I've been told is a cult classic) have four and five-star reader ratings on Amazon. I've written songs for Todd Snider, Jimmy Buffett, Jason & the Scorchers, Dan Baird and others. I played in Government Cheese from '85 to '92. I played in the bis-quits (with Will Kimbrough) from '92 to '94, and we had the honor of making a record for John Prine's label. I've made eight solo albums since then (counting this new one) and I've made three albums with a side project band called Daddy (again with Will Kimbrough).
I'm 5'10", I like Ray Davies, Bob Dylan and Randy Newman, I've been married 29 years (to the same woman, no less), Tourette's makes me blink my eyes a lot, and I pulled my face out of a bottle nine years ago. I'm crazy (so people tell me) and my crazy self is what I write about, I write funny songs about fears (if you like what I think is funny), I write sad songs about fears, and sometimes those tunes are funny and sad at the same time. If I have any mission at all as a songwriter, some higher purpose, it's that I seek to make other messed-up people feel less alone ' the end result of that being that while I'm not everybody's cup of tea, the people who like me tend to really really like me.
If you've read this all the way to the bottom, I appreciate it.
Description
''I wanted to rock this time,'' says the multi-talented musical and literary artist, and local Nashville hero, Tommy Womack, sitting making love to an early morning cup of coffee at Bongo Java in East Nashville, ''they've called me an Americana artist for over twenty years now, and it's a great important genre; I've got nothing against it - I've had a great time being part of the movement.
But one day a while back, I had an epiphany. I thought, hey, I hate dobros anymore! And if I hear another song about a train in the key of G, somebody's gonna get hurt.'' ''I Thought I Was Fine' has more in common with the Replacements than 'Car Wheels on a Gravel Road''' Womack continues as the caffeine begins to kick in, ''It's up-tempo, and sometimes totally in your face. Look, I'm 58 years old, I nearly died in a car accident on the way to a gig in 2015, I've beaten back cancer three times since 2017. I've seen musician friends of mind die before they hit my age, so I want to go back to my first love, rock and roll, while I still have time.''
Womack enjoys a tremendous affection in Nashville and some among the rest of the world, for his (often intensely personal) songs that are sometimes funny, sometimes sad, and have been noted by journalists and fans of having songs able to raise laughter and tears within the same song. From 1985-1992, he played in the legendary post-punk college radio darlings Government Cheese. Then came the bis-quits, from '92 to '94, who did a critically acclaimed record for Jon Prine's 'Oh Boy!.' Womack has also written several books, his first band, 'Cheese Chronicles', is a cult classic among both musicians and fans.
Tracklisting
Tracklisting
David Olney & Anana Kaye
Declan O'Rourke
Noctorum
Chris Stamey
The Verlaines
Naoise Roo
David J
Noctorum
Tommy Womack
Tommy Womack
