Perhaps this new release from Nashville’s storyteller should also be entitled A gift from the gifted. Tom T Hall signed for the Mercury record label in 1967 and since then has delivered a plethora of brilliant songs and stories through his music. Know as ‘the storyteller’ he has entertained for five decades, delivering fifty chart [...]
Rodney Crowell and The Flatlanders at The Sage Gateshead
They say to ‘sing the blues’ you have had to live them, they also say that to write a good song it helps if you’ve experienced something of what you’re singing about. I remember Tom T Hall once telling me that the majority of his story songs are true, albeit that sometimes he had added [...]