This song came to me soon after my brother Frank died. Though he hadn’t been in good health, his passing seemed as sudden as it was heartbreaking. As the younger brother, so much of who I am came from him. more »
Category: About my songs
about the songs written by Thomas Oliver
When I Go to Alabama (a demo)
(formerly You’re in New Orleans)
Where do songs come from? The ideas and particularly the lines that jump out and grab at the listener often baffle the writer as to their origins. I’ve written before about “catching” songs as they float by. This more »
Why Do The Dead Keep Dying (a demo)
It is rare that a person reaches my age and hasn’t experienced grief at some level and probably more than once. I have experienced it, and as writer I have observed it. That has to be the genesis for “Why more »
It Ain’t Right (to be so wrong)
(a demo)
Last year seemed to accelerate the rise of stupidity across the land. And you know what they say: You can’t fix stupid. But you can write a song about it. (You should know, I don’t like or write or perform more »
The Spider and the Ghost of the Fly
(a demo)
I have co-written my second song. After being unsuccessful at producing lyrics to fit a melody I had, I stumbled upon a solution. I had been reading this extraordinary early American poet, and was quite taken by more »
That Siren Whine
I originally wrote this song after the Blood Moon (spring) tides of the fall of 2015. You might have seen pictures of the causeway underwater. Nothing like a causeway being flooded to underscore the fact that you live on an more »