Tom Powers, The Singing Lawyer
Kalamazoo, Michigan
I'm a relative novice (just barely on the sunny side of 80) who got a late start at 65) I have a very good voice and write a few original songs - one of which I recorded at the Ryman Auditorium, although most are rewrites. My specific genre is crooner/jazz of the Rat Pack and Tony Bennet variety, although I can sing country, southern gospel, rock and blues. Right now I have a rockabilly southern gospel song I wrote called The Kingdom Is At Hand which I'm trying to have a major label and established country/gospel artist pick up, as well as an original song I wrote called The Bright Lights of Cheyenne and a rewrite of Abilene; mine is called Springtime Rhapsody or The Pot Hole Song. Both are Tom T. Hall type songs: Does anybody do Tom T. Hall songs these days? The first song I wrote - To An Old Friend - is a rewrite of the old Irish folk song "Stewball" about that 1741 horse race in Kildare. The melody most closely resembles the Peter Paul And Mary version of that song, but mine is about a church, specifically an old church built in Michigan in the early nineteenth century by a Belgian priest with French money, and what it meant to the town, myself and the church itself as we all got older and fell into disrepair. I also wrote vocalese to the worldwide instrumental hit (10 million CD's sold) and am looking for a John Denver type tenor to get thid recorded and maybe scale those heights again.
I'm a semiretired attorney who's practiced law for 50 years in Kalamazoo, Michigan with two grown daughters and three grand children.
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