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It’s Just a Damn Record

By Tommy Womack / November 8, 2014 November 8, 2014

Recording studios are like spas: soothing, ambient lighting, couches, warm porous walls that soak up sound, and lounges stocked with …

By Tommy Womack / September 9, 2014 September 9, 2014

Your first guitar is like your first kiss, your first date, your first bike, the first record you really loved. …

By Tommy Womack / July 12, 2014 July 12, 2014

Song sung blue, everybody knows one Song sung blue, every garden grows one That's the sound of …

By Tommy Womack / May 9, 2014 May 9, 2014

I pick my son up from the Nashville School of the Arts at 3 PM every weekday. Sometimes I have …

By Tommy Womack / March 7, 2014 March 7, 2014

Has it really been almost sixteen years now? Sixteen years since the epoch of blue rooftops? When Mother Nature bounced …

By Tommy Womack / January 10, 2014 January 7, 2019

The other day a friend of mine posted on his Facebook page, “I am happy for my successful friends! I …

By Tommy Womack / November 8, 2013 January 7, 2019

Greetings from Pitea, Sweden, an hour south of the Arctic Circle. It’s not warm. But it could be worse. Being …

By Tommy Womack / September 9, 2013 January 14, 2019

This is not the original column I submitted for this issue. And thank God. I came to my senses just …