Award winning songwriter, entertainer, speaker, poet and teacher
TOM KIMMEL IS ALL OF THESE THINGS AND MORE...
Tom Kimmel‘s songs have been covered by a host of Grammy-winning artists, including Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Levon Helm, Randy Travis, Linda Ronstadt, Nanci Griffith, Dianne Reeves, The Trio (Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt & Emmylou Harris), Shawn Colvin, Art Garfunkel and the Oak Ridge Boys. Fans and critics agree, however, that Tom remains his best interpreter. A soulful, funny and inspiring performer, Tom‘s as vibrant and creative as ever in his sixth decade of music making.
“Rich melodies and fervent delivery.”
—Los Angeles Times
“Kimmel has his own ‘voice’ and it rings with authority. A master poet.”
—The Tennessean
“A very exceptional talent… with a special gift as a writer, singer, instrumentalist, and performer.”
—The Album Network
Check out Tom's latest newsletters here!
Sep 24 2022
Early Fall Greetings to All Sentient Beings!
I love that word “sentient.” According to Webster’s it means “able to feel things.” And thank God we still can. It’s so tempting to pull way in, armor up, knuckle down and simply…
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Aug 13 2022
Late Summer Greetings to My Friends on Planet Earth,
Yes, I’m also an earthling, though sometimes I feel quite the visitor, which is how I felt last week disembarking an international flight to a sea of airport TVs streaming news…
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Jul 16 2022
Hi Everyone!
I’m off to Ireland the first of next week, so SUPER SHORT newsletter this month.
If you missed last week's news blast about my 2023 tours in Ireland AND Scotland, I'll paste that info in below.
In the…
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Jun 19 2022
June Greetings Everyone from very hot Memphis!
And hey I know it’s uncomfortably hot lots of places right now. I do pray everyone’s managing.
With that in mind... Last weekend my wife and I took a walk sponsored by an…
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May 21 2022
May Greetings Everyone!
Spring—I want it to last on and on! But maybe what's fleeting is all the more sweet. And speaking of sweet, I've been traveling—shows with old friend Michael Lille in Asheville and Nashville last week—and I loved…
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Apr 9 2022
April Greetings!
Early spring is in full swing here in Memphis. Buds are bursting, fruit trees and dogwoods flowering and the palest of slender green leaves are sprouting above Midtown streets. I’m reminded that change is indeed possible, renewal is…
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Mar 26 2022
March Greetings Everyone,
I can’t launch into my monthly email to you all without saying that my heart is with the people of Ukraine. The news, the images… hard to read, watch, listen. For me, when unfathomable hurt is inflicted…
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Feb 25 2022
Hey Y'all, a quick special news blast(!)...
At long last Dana Cooper’s excellent new album I Can Face the Truth is OUT, and it features the single “Bluebird,” which Dana and I wrote and perform together...
...AND now there’s a…
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Jan 28 2022
A Slightly Tardy New Year’s Greeting to All!
I can hardly imagine that it’s a New Year, but here we are 19 days in. Time, what a concept! I’m reading a fascinating book called When We Cease to Understand the…
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Jan 28 2022
December Greetings Everybody!
It’s that time of year, and what a year it’s been! Have mercy! Praying for better for the world in ’22. But now the year's winding down, the holidays in sight... and freezing at night. And man…
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Oct 31 2021
Official Fall Greetings Everybody!
Boy oh boy, the colors of the old trees in Midtown Memphis are coming alive. I’m crazy about these trees!
Of course the seasons don’t change so noticeably everywhere, and south of the equator you’re slipping…
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Oct 1 2021
Early Fall Greetings Everyone!
I didn’t intend to maintain radio silence for so long, but for several weeks now my wife and I have been neck deep in relocating to Memphis (and all the house-selling, apartment-hunting, moving, downsizing etc. requires).
…
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Jul 18 2021
Greetings Everybody!
I pray that as you read this you are neither drying out, burning up or drowning here in the midst of our across-the-country crazy weather summer.
I’m on the run, so I’ll be extra-brief, but I do have…
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Jun 17 2021
June Greetings Everyone!
“Humid subtropical” is the climate category we fall into here in Mississippi, and it's an apt term for our fast arriving summer. Hard to imagine that when I was a boy in nearby Alabama we didn’t have…
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May 23 2021
Spring Greetings Everyone!
Somehow this impossible world keeps turning, and in spite of everything hard and worn, wow, here comes Spring... and a little Spring news.
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CONTENTS of This Newsletter
1. Two unique streamed shows (with Beth Wood and…
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Mar 14 2021
March Greetings Everyone!
Got my second Covid shot yesterday, and I’ve never been so happy to feel chilled and wobbly! I just wish everybody who wants one could immediately get theirs.
It's all good, but since my brain's not quite…
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Feb 13 2021
What a time we're living in. Will we ever forget it?
Got my first Covid shot yesterday, and here's how badly I've wanted it...
Last week I drove five (5!) hours round-trip to Natchez only to be informed that I…
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Dec 24 2020
Contents
1. Happy Holidays Everybody!
2. New Website... (online NOW)
3. Food for Thought... from Sufi mystic Rabia
4. A Poem for the Season ("My Sister")
5. A Mini-Holiday Song mp3 gift... for you (attached)
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1. Holiday Greeting
Here's…
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Nov 22 2020
¡Hola! Allô! Hello!... Late Fall Greetings Everyone!
I have a new song called *Nothing's Making Sense to Me But You that begins...
What a time to be alive, what a time to be alone
What a time to be alive…
Nov 13 2020
Contents
1. Late Summer Greetings!
2. The News-in-Very-Brief: Art book update, virtual shows, recording project(s)
3. TK Poem of the Month: "Rockin' Mockinbird"
4. Recommended: "Love on the Spectrum" (TV) and "Against the Rules" (podcast)
5. Food for Thought from…
