Tom's Country View

"By day, I was a cop, and by night, I was playing country music in all the honky-tonks. And so, everyone always knew that I would lean to that side, and it was more than just a hobby for me."   (Frank Ray / connectsavannah.com, Mai 3, 2023)

" I pitched ‘Kill a Man’ to Morgan [Wallen] and it was crickets. There’s stuff on [my album] that people just wouldn’t touch because they were a little too brazen and wild. But I’m the man for it. If anybody’s going to do it, it’s going to be me." (Ben Burgess / tasteofcountry.com, October 7, 2022)

"The Nelson Mandela 70th Tribute Concert was held on June 11, 1988 at the Wembley Stadium, London. To celebrate Nelson Mandela, the biggest stars performed songs of freedom, hope and love in front of 72,000 people at the Wembley Stadium and more than 600 million television viewers from 60 countries who watched the broadcast. Then Tracy Chapman burst out there performing Fast Car." (about-tracy-chapman.net / Marc Cooper, Q Magazine, September 1988)

"This. What is this? This is what I want to do.’ And he was like, ‘No one’s doing that.’ Cool! That’s a good thing! So to help me, we would take old country songs and put a soul twist on them, or we would take old soul songs and put a country twist on them." (Kassi Ashton / people.com, October 11, 2019)

"After we've written the song, I sent it to Mom, I sent it to Gloria, and I'm sending it to my sister. And slowly but surely now - we still say 'I Love You', because I come from a wonderful line of women that is quick to give you a hug and quick to tell you if they love you or if you have pissed them off. And now we tell each other: 'I'll leave the light on!'" (Ashley McBryde / The Bobby Bones Show, March 3, 2023)