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Listen Now! ...new cd ...I'm A Bluesman

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"This guy has what it takes ...the music oozes sexuality ...he is totally his own man with a show-stopping style!"…

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...in the early 80's american bluesman Billy Jones was the lead guitarist for an outstanding group of touring musicians who called themselves 'The Incredible Rock City Band'. ...this song is taken from…

This week on Tommie Talks Music I'm speaking with the three people who are the passion and the driving forces behind Act Against Injustice…

This show is about me - and my guests of course - over my first 12 weeks as a broadcaster/interviewer and the last two years since I first put my toes in the waters of the internet. I had no experience for either before I plunged in!



Such a lot to learn in both respects; a lot of very hard work and most of all determination and persistence; but always the driving force was the music.



In terms of the…

This week on Tommie Talks Music on Womens Radio, I'm chatting with my friend Virgil Carr of Parkway Radio.

Virgil has had many careers and businesses through his life but always

music was important and he now runs two radio…

I have always written poetry - for as long as I can remember - and the passion for words runs alongside the music although as any songwriter will know, there is a huge difference between writing poetry and writing song lyrics. That's not to say that you can't adapt either one to the other - but initially at least they are very different.

I was inspired this…

I've supported Act Against Injustice for a long while and the plan to put out a major compilation album to raise funds; I have also written the song that will be released by this charity.

They asked me if I would be an official Ambassador for

them - a…

This week on my show Tomme Talks Music on Womens Radio my guest is

Neill Newton, the founder and inspiration behind Global Flying Hospitals, a

charity that facilitates expert medical help around the world where its needed

the most.

I've been a supporter of…

I already told you that my Womens Radio show where I interview people who inspire with their music and their lives, is now being

broadcast each week on Parkway Radio, on Krystal fm

and on World fm.and.........................

Since then the show is now being added to the schedules on Blues City Radio ( thankyooooo Sheila!)…

This week it is an absolute pleasure to be talking with my good friend Claudette Harrell - Manning - my sistah Sweet Claudette!!

More about Claudette Harrell

Claudette is a wordsmith who is wonderfully versatile in putting together great lyrics for any one of the genres she has written in - funk, blues, jazz, R & B - spread across her five CDs.



Claudette writes poems, prose and…

My latest adventure is my music talk show called Tommie Talks Music and my very first

episode is now live on the net thanks to a lot of help from Womens Radio and a very

helpful first guest in the form of Brian Ball!

Pat Lynch of Womens Radio interviewed me so as to introduce me to everyone and

you can hear this short broadcast at this link...........…

I was notified today that in recognition of my blues music and my promotion of blues around the world, I have been inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame as Ambassador for New Zealand.

To say that I am stunned and thrilled and honored doesn't even come near............

This is an immense honor for me in my little…

Over two years ago, I wrote a song when inspired - if that's the right word - by yet another manmade disaster in the world. I never released it for the simple reason I hate to jump on bandwagons of 'caring' !!

But - asked by radio in the USA if I had any more new tracks to…

Simply Love…