Artist: Tom House
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #50 March-April 2004
Tom House – That Dark Calling
Writers fairly consistently and fairly accurately yoke Tom House to tradition — the mineshaft caterwaul of Dock Boggs, for example. But House also seems to occupy his own musical world, a surreal, American primitive landscape full of fleabag beauty, poetic mind shapes, and intriguing, oddball non-verbalisms (liquid purrs, primal scat warbles and amiably bubbly vibrato). [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #45 May-June 2003
Tom House – Long Time Home From Here
“I woke up hugging myself but I was calling your name.” That image of frustrated isolation fits so many of the trapped souls in Tom House’s work. It leads off his fine new album, Long Time Home From Here; and in its twelve songs, we find Desolation Row relocated to rural America, where mountain poets [...]
The Long Way Around - Feature from Issue #37 Jan-Feb 2002
Tom House – Welcome to the occupation
The irregular application of red dye has done little to subdue Tom House’s half-long hair, nor to mute the gray at his temples. The rushing years have only served to speed his work, anyway. Four albums in five years have hardly made a career of his songs, though they have ensured that his music will [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #25 Jan-Feb 2000
Tom House – ‘Til You’ve Seen Mine
Middle age may be discovered in that moment when life’s surprises are no longer viewed with hope but with trepidation, when dreams focus on the past, not the future. Tom House’s third and most fully realized album explores what comes after with rare grace and candor. House writes hard songs that don’t blink and sings [...]
Waxed - Record Review from Issue #18 Nov-Dec 1998
Tom House – This White Man’s Burden
On his second album for Checkered Past, Tom House continues to refine his tightly woven working-class narratives that transport listeners to the American South. House’s vocals sometimes remind of John Prine, and his disregard of lyrical meter recalls Lightnin’ Hopkins; in combination, the effect can be devastating. He groans, yowls and murmurs the words to [...]
Town and Country - Shorter Artist Feature from Issue #9 May-June 1997
Tom House – A poet’s tears, a drunken smile
Nashville’s Working Stiff Jamboree has been attracting poets, songwriters and disaffiliated left-wingers to Springwater, a local bar, for over a decade now. It’s a resolutely democratic affair; the microphone in the back room of the bar is open to anyone with nerve enough to take it. No one screens anybody’s material. What matters inside these [...]
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