{"title":"Tommy Womack","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"i-thought-i-was-fine","title":"I Thought I Was Fine","description":"\u003cp\u003eTommy Womack - \"My new record is called \u003ci\u003eI Thought I Was Fine\u003c\/i\u003e and its great. Right, I'm not going to say it stinks, am I. If you like me, you'll love this new one. If you don't like me, you might be surprised. If you've never heard of me (that's most of you), this could be the start of a beautiful friendship. It's a rock and roll record. I'm categorized as Americana because this business loves putting labels on people. Yes, there's a couple of country-ish songs on it, I do live in Nashville, and my southern accent is what it is, but I had an epiphany one day. I realized, hey, I hate dobros. And if I hear another song about a train in the key of G, somebody's gonna get hurt. I realized I'm 58 years old, I've survived a horrendous car crash, I've had cancer three times, and this might be my final shot ' so I wanted to go back to my first love while there's still time. Who ME is can be summed up by saying I'm a songwriter and an author. I've won the 'Best Song' award in the Nashville Scene Critics Poll twice. My three books (including Cheese Chronicles, which I've been told is a cult classic) have four and five-star reader ratings on Amazon. I've written songs for Todd Snider, Jimmy Buffett, Jason \u0026amp; the Scorchers, Dan Baird and others. I played in Government Cheese from '85 to '92. I played in the bis-quits (with Will Kimbrough) from '92 to '94, and we had the honor of making a record for John Prine's label. I've made eight solo albums since then (counting this new one) and I've made three albums with a side project band called Daddy (again with Will Kimbrough). I'm 5\"\"10\", I like Ray Davies, Bob Dylan and Randy Newman, I've been married 29 years (to the same woman, no less), Tourette's makes me blink my eyes a lot, and I pulled my face out of a bottle nine years ago. I'm crazy (so people tell me) and my crazy self is what I write about, I write funny songs about fears (if you like what I think is funny), I write sad songs about fears, and sometimes those tunes are funny and sad at the same time. If I have any mission at all as a songwriter, some higher purpose, it's that I seek to make other messed-up people feel less alone ' the end result of that being that while I'm not everybody's cup of tea, the people who like me tend to really really like me. If you've read this all the way to the bottom, I appreciate it.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Schoolkids Records","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":50475251040587,"sku":"1133918","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"LP","offer_id":50475251433803,"sku":"1141535","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/e0008177-c77f-4f1a-ba3f-616372c5cdbe_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727445231"},{"product_id":"live-a-little-1","title":"Live A Little","description":"\u003cp\u003e On his new album Live a Little, acclaimed Nashville indie-rock singer-songwriter Tommy Womack reminds us that every moment is precious. “I could have called it Life Goes On, but that would have been a little maudlin and a little too obvious,” Womack says. “The flip side of the death that runs though the record is life is fleeting, and don’t let it pass you by. Life goes on, yes, and you should live a little as long as you are here.” Womack explores both dying and living on the album. The entire album is written from the perspective of an older, wiser guy; someone who has lived and learned and grown as a person and as an artist. Producer Eric Ambel calls it a “reflective record,” and while Womack may be in a reflective mood, it doesn’t blunt his artistic edge, which is honed with irony and humor. Live a Little is Womack’s ninth solo album, and it is arguably his best. As usual, he offsets the heavier songs with humorous ones. Womack recorded the album at Ambel’s Brooklyn studio Cowboy Technical Services. They began discussing recording together after a tribute concert in New York in February 2024 for Ambel’s late Del-Lords’ bandmate Scott Kempner. Kempner had recorded Womack’s song “I’ll Give You Needles” on his 2008 album Saving Grace. “It was a lot of fun for me,” Ambel says. “Tommy carries a sneaky sophistication. There are some sophisticated chord changes, and being a Beatles, Cheap Trick, Kinks fan helps pull things a little bit away from the middle. And I’m coming from that same place.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Schoolkids Records","offers":[{"title":"LP - Black","offer_id":53571752427851,"sku":"R8728-6915","price":29.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":53571752460619,"sku":"R8728-1817","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/201375075574.jpg?v=1760109026"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/tommy-womack.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}