My name is Tommy Glynn Womack. Skot Willis once said I was the craziest person he’d ever met who had his life together. Todd Snider says I’m the only person he’s ever met in Nashville who’s crazier than he is. So I must be crazy, I guess. I can’t tell. Crazy for most folks must just be what normal feels like for me.
I make records, I write. I play shows. And being an artist of, shall we say, minor repute, I am also compelled to spend my Mondays through Fridays at a company that employs 18,000 people, maintains a zero-tolerance drugs and alcohol policy, and - thankfully for me so far - an apparent zero-enforcement of such. Hell, I’d love them to piss-test me, actually; I’ll walk in there with a fresh hot cup of urine and a fistful of prescriptions and say "yeah, I’m good for that, I'm good for that, and I’m good for that! And as for THAT, well that’s to keep me off the third-floor ledge of the building I work in, naked, with a spray-paint can in my hand and a whole lot to get off my chest!"
More Facts! I live in Nashville, Tennessee, USA with my wife Beth, two cats, Pete & Shelley, and our beautiful boy Nathan.
From 1985 through 1992 I played in a band with Will Kimborough called Government Cheese that released four albums on Reptile Records.
From 1992 through 1994 I played in a band with Will Kimborough called the bis-quits and released and album on John Prine's O-Boy label.
In 1995, my book The Cheese Chronicles: The True Story Of A Rock and Roll Band You've Never Heard Of was published.
Since 1997 I have released four solo albums, with a fifth on it's way and I also play in a new band with Will Kimborough called Daddy.
I have two "hobbies". Firstly, I like to keep read about, and speculate on, the Historical Jesus, the real guy, who he really was, what he really said, etc. reading stuff by J.D. Crossan, A. N. Wilson and John Shelby Spong regarding such. That’s because I spent the first twenty-odd years of my life so deep in the Bible belt I didn’t even know there was one. Jesus was on every wall of my house and oftentimes twice. I don’t live much like that now, but needless to say it leaves it’s residual notions to be worked through in one’s mind.
Secondly, I boast a reasonably well-honed facility for classic-era New York Mafia Genealogy: the Gambinos, the Genoveses, the Bonannos, the Lucheeses and the Columbos. I like keeping up with those guys, you know, scanning the papers, keeping up with who’s in charge, who’s been arrested, who’s been killed, etc. I don’t know why, but I do so love to keep up with such matters. I can probably name you all the leaders of the Gambino Crime Family in order since its inception, from Albert Anastasia onward, and most of the other families as well, for that matter.
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