“Atlanta’s Burning” is a song that had to be written. After all, when you leave home, you have to write about it. We’re talking about the city of my birth. Where I raised a family. Had a career. Where my mother, more »
Category: About my songs
about the songs written by Thomas Oliver
The stories behind the songs:
The stories behind the songs:
#7 One Day at a Time
“One Day at a Time” is what I call a Texas two-step tune, which I enjoy writing and playing. (For fans who might know much of my music, I consider “A Fool for Love,” “A Stop Along the Road” and “Never more »
The stories behind the songs:
# 6 A Place to Call Home
I refer to “A Place to Call Home” as my waitress song. Melissa calls it my Waffle House song. That’s because I gathered most of it from my stint working in Norcross, home of the Waffle House chain. There more »
The stories behind the songs:
#5 Hotter than the 4th of July
I wrote “Hotter than the 4th of July” according to the songwriting principle espoused by Harland Howard. Howard, the songwriting genius of such hits as “I Fall to Pieces,” “Busted” and “Streets of Baltimore,” is to have said he couldn’t more »
What the press and others are saying
Anna Chandler writing in Connect Savannah says: “From toe-tapping, catchy country tunes to haunting, wistful story-songs, the prolific writer [Thomas Oliver] is refreshingly versatile in both style and narrative.” The Perk Avenue Coffee Cafe & Coffeehouse says: “A true Americana more »
The stories behind the songs:
#4 Old Men
The story behind the song “Old Men” begins in a strange bed. I was visiting Atlanta and crashing at my friend Wade Watkins’. In the morning, over coffee in the kitchen, he asked how I slept, and I said, “Old more »