New CD is now available! - "Eastern Kentucky"

Tommy Webb is from Langley, Kentucky. Located in Floyd County, near the well-known Highway Rt. 23 that so many award winning country and bluegrass music artists have originated. This is the area he calls home. Tommy started singing and playing guitar when he was 15 years old in jam sessions with some buddies up the hollow where he lives. Out of high school he started playing with a group called The Pine Top Ramblers, later performing with South Creek, and then played for several years with another group called Onlyne. He also performed with Clyde Bowling and the Southern Bluegrass Boys before starting The Tommy Webb Band in 2005. Tommy sings lead, tenor, and guitar is his main instrument, but for an eager crowd he will always pull out the old time claw hammer banjo to give the audience their money's worth. He's also writes a lot of songs, and has written several on his latest projects, Eastern Kentucky and Now That You Are Gone. Tommy sings every Sunday in the local church and he loves fishing, hunting, and playing basketball with his son Justin.

Here is one of those "sleepers" that come at us unexpectedly from time to time--- this one from out of the hills of Eastern Kentucky. Tommy Webb is a fine, powerful singer with a distinctive voice, and he has picked out some excellent songs and has enlisted the help of Ronnie Stewart, whose picking(fiddle, banjo, mandolin), arranging and help in the studio has made this a first-rate album. Webb includes two classic Stanley Brothers songs (GOD GAVE YOU TO ME, I'M LOST I'LL NEVER FIND THE WAY), both given first class treatment. His two originals (MARY JANE and the title song) fit right in nicely, and his soulful gospel rendition of TRADE THE OLD CROSS FOR A CROWN is lovely. Considering the hard-core, mountain flavor of Webb's presentation it is curious that he also includes songs by Contemporary writers Dan Seals, Carl Jackson and Harley Allen---amazingly all of them fit right in perfectly with this hard-driving collection. Perhaps the highlight of the album is a great performance of HARD ROW TO HOE, a fine Jimmy Rushing song that was lost on one of Ricky Skaggs later country albums---this one's a gem, as is the entire disc. What a pleasure to hear someone who sings it like he means it---tastefully and without pretensions or gimmicks: it reminds us of what real country music used to sound like. WILDWOOD FLOWER BLUES, LONESOME OLD TOWN, HEADIN' WEST, etc. - eFolkMusic

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Links to more reviews...

Bluegrass Unlimited - Sept, 2005

IBMA article - July/Aug 2005