Tom Mason: News

I'll be playing at an East Nashville showcase on Friday, September 18th, as part of Red Beets Records happy hour party celebrating the release of East Nashville Volume 3, which features "Chano Pozo's Shoes". Also appearing will be such acts as Eric Brace and Peter Cooper, Phil Lee, Kevin Gordon, Audrey Auld, Tim Carroll, and many others.
The party is from 5-8 at 162 8th Ave. N, downtown Nashville.

Here are a few videos: A new one Rob Ellen put together of our time in the Netherlands:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGL7zmwAoCo
And the video for The Pirate Song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8B2giRZvWmE
Here's an NPT short about the Nashville Shakespeare Festival, one great reason to live in Nashville. There are a few quick glimpses of my performance in Richard III.:
http://wnpt.org/productions/arts/shake/index.html

The song "Chano Pozo's Shoes" will be featured on the new Red Beet Records CD "East Nashville Volume 3", to be released in September of 2009. Other artist include Eric Brace and Peter Cooper, Phil Lee, Kevin Gordon, Chuck Meade, and Elizabeth Cook. For more details go to redbeetrecords.com

The new Tom Mason CD "Alchemy" has arrived! The thirteen song CD comes with a 16 page, full color illustrated book of lyrics, and features such favorites as "Chano Pozo's Shoes", "The World is Drunk", "The Amazing Lorenzo", and "The Pirate Song".

Here's our special web site deal:
One CD/ $15 two CD's/ $25 five CD's/$50

Payment can be made either by sending a check (no cash please) to Tom Mason, P.O. Box 24456, Nashville TN 37202,
or through our PayPal account (see the "Buy" page). Don't forget to indicate where to send the CD's.

Alchemy will also be available soon at CDBaby.com and on itunes and other popular download sites.

In August I'm heading overseas to play guitar for Phil Lee. We're starting in Scotland, then continuing on to England, Ireland, and then Holland. The dates are on my calendar page, and you can hear Phil Lee at www.Phillee1.com. This is Phil's "I Saw Him Before He Died" tour, and I'll be there to prop him up, chime in on some harmonies, open the show on occasion, and sell some copies of "Alchemy" when Phil's not looking. (Don't tell him!) Don't be surprised if you see me in September standing on the banks of the Cumberland River in kilts playing bagpipes.

I spent May and June of this year in California. My first stop was the Bay area with Phil Lee and comedian Lord Carrett, where we played at the legendary Purple Onion nightclub.
Then I went to greater Los Angeles to start rehearsals for a new production of "Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash" at the La Mirada Performing Arts Center. This version, directed by and featuring Jason Edwards (from the Broadway cast), was more stripped down, a little less Broadway and a little more Luther Perkins, and with a smaller cast (great folks!), I had more chances to act and sing, including singing "Cocaine Blues" in a prison scene, right after Brantley Kearns (Dwight Yoakum, David Bromberg) sang another lady-killer song, "Deliah's Gone". The reviews were great, and other theaters in California are booking the show in the future,
I had first performed in "Ring of Fire" in the initial Broadway tour in 2007-2008, two busses and two trucks, with a great big family of talented people. We saw a whole lot of this country, from Great Falls, Montana to McAllen, Texas to Orillia Ontario to Portsmouth New Hampshire, and even played Peoria. After two productions and all those shows, I still love every note Johnny Cash sang.