I have often been told I’m not playing a certain song the way it was originally done. To which I reply: Good. I have laughed at such criticism and said I’m not good enough to imitate the original. And there more »
Author: Thomas
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 »
The stories behind the songs: #3
The Girl with an Accidental Memory
The story behind one of my more unusual songs, “The Girl with an Accidental Memory,” starts at a weekly acoustic jam I was very fortunate to stumble upon soon after arriving on Tybee. There on Tuesdays in the back room at more »
The stories behind the songs:
#2 You Got Me
“You Got Me” was originally titled “Til the Cows Come Home.” I thought I was being so clever because there is no such line in the song, although the implicit meaning of the phrase more »
The stories behind the songs:
#1 The Edge of America
The song “The Edge of America” came from a trip Melissa and I took with David and Judy McNaughton a few years back. We were pretending to hunt for an island to live on. We visited Folly Beach outside of more »
Tybee’s weekly jam changed my life
I first stumbled into the weekly Tuesday Night Jam at Doc’s Bar on Tybee Island in January of 2010. Situated in the back of the small, but popular bar was a room full of pickers playing and singing music. A more »