"Welcome to my site. I'm very
pleased to share it with you. It is
design to serve as a resource for my
music and the Contemporary Folk
genre. The type of music I play is
finger-picked, acoustic guitar
folk
based on my own life experiences,
inspired by the diverse people I've
met and myriad of places I've been.
The definitive Folk Music writer
Scott Alarik wrote in his 2003 book,
Deep Community: Adventures in the
modern folk underground, (Black
Wolf Press),
"...But I think we are basically
stuck with folk as the label for the
contemporary genre that grew from
that older traditional form. Like
it or not--many folk people today do
not--it is the term by which the
majority of people today correctly
identify what connects the modern
songwriter to the blues singer, the
Celtic group to the salsa band.
"...But folk music is also the only
term that gives us room to describe
those vibrant, important artists who
cross all boundaries, who mix old
and new, urban and rural, electric
and acoustic, traditional and
original, international and
domestic; and yet remain tied, in
some way, to the best aesthetics and
instincts of tradition."
And I hope to be one of those
artists.
I look forward to seeing you at a
live performance."
Tomy
(one "M")
Legend
poisoned
by a jealous
husband.
Lying,
dying
two weeks
nearby.
Wrote
in the
scrawl
of the
Saved:
"Jesus of Nazareth, King of
Jerusalem.
I know that my Redeemer liveth, and
that He will call me from the
Grave."1
Bridge to "The Repentant Robert
Johnson"
Tomy Wright, Jefferson, MD © 2006
1Robert Johnson,
Greenwood, MS, circa 1938
