(TV) Tom On The Mount / 43 / Steel

["Leo Casey" <LeoCasey@comcast.net>]

Don't want to sound like an obsessive compulsive, but---

 

The link/clipping sent by Claudia made me a little suspicious because in
about 10 interviews TV also refers to his *older* brother (and I 'm pretty
sure he had only 1 brother).  I figured if the bio-clipping had got that
wrong they may have also got his birthplace wrong.

 

All my articles, music books (that have a mention of his birthplace), as
well as the 43 links below claim it was Mt. Morris, NJ. 

 

Although to pick up on a recent Joe Thornton post about Tom's "..time spent
in the South.." ----I 've always felt Delaware was more of a Southern state
than simply a border state (my best friend grew up in Delaware and still
says "Youall").  But I don't hear any Southern/C&W musical roots influences
in his guitar playing.  His voice though is another story.  I've always
thought Patti Smith was dead-on when she wrote":  

 

"[... He's a creature of opposites. The way he comes on like a dirt farmer
and a prince ..." 

 

 

http://64.95.72.90/wmp10/layout/WM/artist.asp?p=84
<http://64.95.72.90/wmp10/layout/WM/artist.asp?p=84&u=4F0E5C6F903B40F9865EF0
C26DAE15A4&t=595F12A9FACC495F9CD2E8DB03000F8B&id=308802>
&u=4F0E5C6F903B40F9865EF0C26DAE15A4&t=595F12A9FACC495F9CD2E8DB03000F8B&id=30
8802

 

http://www.nndb.com/people/871/000062685/

 

http://www.music-story.net/detail_person/Tom+Verlaine

 

 

"Sacred Steel"-with Willie Easton, Sonny Treadway, Glenn Lee and others;
1Arhoolie cd 450, 1997.
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