Tom Kimmel

Greetings Everyone!

It's a rainy spring day in Memphis, and outside my rain-streaked window the yard is an impressionist's painting of green, white, deep violet, yellow, and pink. (I've really got to learn the names of these flowers.)

OK, the…

Hey Everybody!

In March a few years back I was touring in Canada with the Waymores. It snowed every day we were there, so driving was an adventure. One day we rolled into Saskatchewan, where snow plows had piled the…

Greetings Everyone!

I suppose by now we have all experienced some truly demented weather in still-young 2024. But as Sir Paul McCartney said, "Forge ahead." (He really said it.)

Of late I have been holed up in my studio as…

Happy Holidays Everybody!

As we barrel toward the New Year, I want to take a minute to tell you how much I appreciate you—more than you know!—and to wish you the happiest holidays ever. 

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa…

Greetings Everyone!

Well I'd begun to think I was immune, but I got Covid three months ago and it kicked my booty right down the road. Now I'm back to normal in most ways, but my brain seems to be…

Fall Greetings Everyone!

We had a hard freeze last night, and I forgot to cover my favorite plants! My periwinkles have bloomed nonstop all summer and early fall, and now, alas, they've frozen and wilted. 

But I do love fall…

Greetings Everyone,

I’m off to Scotland in three very short days, so I'll be keeping this one extra-brief. I just want to touch base with you, acknowledge the filaments stretched between us—and say that I pray the arrival of fall…

August Greetings to all Sentient Beings!

Mid-August usually brings the dog days of summer, but this Memphis morning is startlingly cool and beautiful—startling because it follows weeks of intense heat and scary thunderstorm bombardments. But today the sky is bright…

July Greetings from Memphis!

Well it’s cooled off a bit here—only 93º today, thankfully—and I mean it when I say my heart is with my Texan and New Englander friends who are at present melting or floating. I pray for…

June News from West Tennessee...

Greetings Everyone! Lots to share this month, so let's slide right on through it...

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CONTENTS

1. Sherpas news: The new LP at radio... and more...

2. Ireland: Quick report, plus 2024 links

3. Scotland…

May News from Memphis...

I'm back from a fabulous month in Ireland and Scotland—and of course I want to share a little of that with you—but the big news TODAY is that "Promise to Harry," the Sherpas long-in-the-works second album…

Spring Greetings from Ireland...

Spring’s arriving by the minute here in County Clare! The trees are pushing out pale green leaves, and the hills and roadsides are peppered with golden gorse. I’ve savored my time here, and I pray that…