Tom
@TomVolhein
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Phoenix, AZ USA
Joined Sep 9, 2007
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Visit My Site at http://www.tomvolhein.com
Around 12 years of age, I talked my folks into a Sears Silvertone guitar for Christmas. Although that particular guitar wound up as parts for a homemade electric, it was the instrument that started it all. By high school, 1964, I had a Goya classical and was playing local coffee houses. It was the time of folk and protest, so I played and protested. Around 1969, I took up the electric bass and spent the next 17 years traveling throughout the US; playing rhythm and blues, jazz, rock, and country; in clubs, studios, and even churches; as a single, in combos, and in big bands.
In the mid 80’s, I stepped away from performing and spent about 15 years exploring and challenging my beliefs, examining my relationships, raising a family, getting a degree, and trying out professions in the corporate and financial worlds.
Around the turn of the century, the business world had become stale for me, and I began to seriously research other paths. Like everyone, I suppose, I wanted to find something more meaningful.
So, with a lifetime’s worth of experiences and an even more fierce passion for playing and singing that I had as a young man, I am back doing what I love.
My Music
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Hello Tom :) I just wanted to stop by and say thank you for adding Dirt Road home... I wrote it about the road that leads to my home, it's either muddy or dusty depending on the time of year! I love that road so much I just had to write a song about it! :D Anyway, take care... Lexie :)