THE GHOSTS OF TOM WOOD ARE COMING HOME

There are ghosts in the face of singer and songwriter Tom Wood. You can see them arrive when he performs.

Tom washed up in Vegas many years ago with music and an old love on his mind.

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He was brought up in St Louis and yet says he never had the blues. He did, he just doesn’t like to talk about it all that much… Tom is a big, lugubrious-looking man, but he is also a changeling with a smile, reserved and polite, gentle but emotional.

He is a writer with a passion too … the passion to demand things are put right, a passion against racism, iniquity and the bad treatment of human beings.

And, like Tom Paine, Tom Wood has a grand vision for society: Paine was anti-slavery and advocated world peace and social security for the poor and elderly.

Steinbeck’s Tom Joad is trapped between crippling poverty and a realisation that people have no place in this changing America.

Tom Wood has all these passions and they are indeed the ghosts in his face, his heart and his songs.

For many years he worked in the mountains and the desert and now he is on the rocky road home.

Here is his latest recording, Welcome Home, a beautiful sad ballad with ghosts and memories. But more than anything it has hope and you can see in the candlelight a new brightness coming.

Once again the brilliant LA film creator Bob Mori has put together a stunning video to promote Welcome Home.