Tom Kimmel

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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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