Light Bits N Peace EZ Tom's 5th solo album released 2016. Tom returns to singer/song writer
format with Bass, Drums, Guitar, Piano, & Vocals. Tom's publisher had
a problem with the original artwork on this album, so all the art was pulled and
just the text was left to meet our timeline for the first pressing. The issue
was resolved by the time of the "Remastered for Streaming" series which features
the artwork.
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- Tom Shirra / Shirrasong (888295494274)
A fun, funky, bluesy, rocking, and insightful collection of music.
Leaning back to basic band configuration of Guitar, Bass, Drums, and
Piano\Organ that I normally use for live performance. Light Bits N
Peace EZ represents one of my favorite pastimes of changing the
phrasing of a word or a sentence turning it into a new perception of
the same letters. This was a fun album to create, calling on memories
throughout my life and creating a collage of music I hope you enjoy.
Da Bassman – One of the things I love to do is play off a drummer, when
I was young drummers and I would
play for hours having fun and pushing
it to the limit physically and musically, and I still love to do that.
Instruments – Fretless Fender Jazz Bass, Drum programming, Vocals
Rumblin Roads – Combines my love of riding motorcycles with the love of
the bass guitar,
inspired by a guitar player who once said “What are
you going to do play all the parts yourself,
you’re a bass player”. The
melody and cords along with the bass are all done on bass guitars.
Instruments – Bass, Piano, Syth Horns, Drum programming, Vocals
Light Bits N Peaces EZ – A jazzy, bluesy piece conceived to gather this
collage of music together in my
sense of humor of twisting a phrase
featuring some of my guitar playing.
Instruments – Guitar, Bass, Piano, Percussion, Drum Programming, Vocals
Toby Brown – Was a gifted guitar player in my town, my house was the
place everyone came to jam when I was a kid.
He was always pushing it
to the limit. I have captured the spirit and soul of the jam sessions
we had long ago in this recording.
Toby Brown was also the poster boy
for why you don’t eat too much LSD,
It’s been many years but the last
time I saw him he was homeless and screaming at the bark of trees.
I
hope he found peace.
Instruments – Acoustic Guitar, Classical Guitar
Friendly Farms – A happy upbeat folk rock style song featuring guitar.
Written as retrospective to the large
farms I have consulted for in
Florida and the new farms I was able to tour in free Colorado,
Combined
with my love of a carnival.
Instruments – Guitars, Bass, Calliope Synth, Electronic Drums
I’ll See You When I Get There – When I was very young my friends and I
used to ride the bus all over the county.
One time we got on the bus
there was a man in the back with a brown paper bag singing and caring
on.
He would sing a few refrains take a sip off the bag, then
pretending to play the harmonica and guitar.
This went on for the 30
minutes it took to get from downtown Bridgeport well into the next
town.
I have recreated that time long ago here with a modern memory of
a cell phone conversation
you might here in your travels with this
bluesy number.
Instruments – Guitar, Bass, Piano, Harmonica, Electronic Drums
Haines Road Boogie – A rocking blues boogie. Haines Road, a fun but
dangerous place,
at one time had more than a dozen bars and clubs
within a half a mile stretch.
I used to walk from place to place
playing for tips with a Stratocaster and a pig nose strapped to my belt
for fun.
It was my intention to capture the excitement of the time and
neighborhood. Good Times.
Instruments – Guitar, Bass, Organ, Drum Programming
I Sing The Blues – Obviously a blues song. One night I went out to a
local blues jam in the mindset to
play some guitar and sing. As I
greeted the leader of the jam before I could speak a word he told me he
“had to many bass players and besides you don’t sing and you play
country”.
Now that didn’t really bother me because he didn’t know
any better and had been
messing with me like this for years.
So, I
finished my drink without a word and went to the studio and recorded
this tune that night.
With a smile I can say "now he can listen to me
on the radio".
Instruments – Guitar, Bass, B3 Organ, Harmonica, Electronic Drums,
Vocals
Duality – An interesting guitar piece that was conceived during a week
of new friends,
old friends, and even I was made aware of the duality
we all must lead at times.
Instruments – Acoustic Guitar, Classical Guitar, Piano
Friendly Farms Back 40 – A different variation of Friendly Farms with a
space meant just for you.
Instruments – Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Juzak Upright Bass,
Electronic Drums
Cosmic Cowboy – A Funky, Bluesy, Rock song. Playing in small clubs you
meet a variety of different people,
there is a Cosmic Cowboy everywhere
you go and a little Cosmic Cowboy in all of us.
Instruments – Guitar, Bass, Synthesizer, Electric Drums Programming,
Vocals
Peaceful Sunset – Many a day walking the beach, Friendship, Fine times
together.
Instruments – Electric Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, Juzak Upright Bass,
Electronic Drums
My Quiet Place – An airy bluesy piece featuring Guitar. After the show
is over and everyone is gone to bed
I go to My Quiet Place and play,
this is an example of that.
Instruments – Electric Guitar, Synthesizers, Electronic Percussion
Programming