Who the hell is that guy on keys and accordion???

Here’s the answer…..I’ve been randomly sitting in on keys and accordion with Carbon Leaf for almost a year and a half now. I don’t own my accordion and the IRS is certain to confiscate my Ensoniq HALO keyboard within a few months. I live in Petersburg, VA, just a few gallons of gas south of Richmond with my dog Lemon and my wonderful wife. (Who has already started to open up some off-shore accounts now that we’ve been married for a few months….an open-book look into my accounts reveals an exceedingly shallow financial soul – In all aspects of my life, I’m just way too nice a guy to demand what I’m really worth).

Randomly: On a musical front….I have recently signed a digital distribution deal with a label, Dualtone Records…out of Nashville. A guy who works there used to cover some of my songs in his band and ten years later popped up out of nowhere and asked me to give over all my music to him and his cronies. Please check it out on iTunes…..almost everything I and my two brothers, Dave and Mike ever did as a group is up there under the “Tom McCormack Band.” I swear Carter and Terry think it’s worth a listen. I also work with metal as a profession. All the work I’ve done can be seen at Torch The Sun .

I agreed to sit in with Carbon Leaf because, no shit, when my brother and I opened for them in 2000something, we used to joke about how nice they and their fans were. Let’s just say that when we opened for them at the Birchmere, my band and our posse drank all the beer and liquor on their rider in about 15 minutes and didn’t hear one peep out of them. Later they even offered us their hotel rooms along with the cheese and champagne that they get in each of their rooms ((after all their shows)). I also think it’s really cool that they’ve decided to team up with the art directors and set builders of Saw III to put together a stage set for the next tour. Supposedly if I make the cut for that tour (I’m up against Garth Hudson, the old Keyboardist from the Band and John Paul Jones) I’ll be rocking on a sick jaw-shaped riser that has stitched-together bones as a floor and huge teeth as feet.

Tom McCormack
www.myspace.com/tommccormackband

Comments

[Jenn]

Thank you for tagging along on the tour! Your (or whoever owns it!) accordian was bad-ass, especially made me love One Prairie Outpost more than I already did, and also makes me ashamed that as a kid, I laughed when my dear grandpa tried to pass on his proud German-love-of-his-accordian/oompha music to me. I only THOUGHT I knew what was "cool" back then....

[Bonnie Monroe]

Hi Tom!

Thank you for the information on how you came to be in the band. I wanted to say thank you. When my son, Garrett (5) and I came to see Carbon Leaf in Annapolis, MD in December 2006, you were so kind and thoughtful in making sure he got the appropriate signatures on his guitar and his picture taken with the crew. All the guys are great but you stood out as being extra considerate. Your wife, who I believe was a bit sick at the time, was also very sweet. It is good to see you and to see your name on our guitar. Hope 2 c u playing with the band soon. I will check out your music. Garrett, my daughter, Abby and myself are soon off to see Great Big Sea in Harrisburg, PA. Have you heard of them? Carbon Leaf has opened for them before in the Rechter Theatre in Towson. Thanks!! Bonnie