RIP Tom T. Hall

[Don Sulesky]

My favorite was "I'm the guy who didn't marry Pamala Brown".

[Doug Beaumier]

I first heard "Pamela Brown" on a Leo Kottke album. I didn't know that Tom T wrote and recorded it. I like Tom's version a lot more!

[Don Sulesky]

Doug, I also 1st heard it by Leo many years ago.

[Jim Pitman]

“That’s How I got to Memphis”, one of my favorite songs of all time. What’s strange for me is Tom T been on my mind lately.

[Peter Dollard]

The first thing that ever interested in the steel guitar was clayton delaney not from any steel part but the fretted dobro licks in the background(Jerry Kennedy maybe?) I immediately located an old steel National square neck and was off to the races. Well the guitar was beautiful the tone was more Son House but the bug had bitten me....

[Wayne Franco]

Momma bake a pie (daddy kill a chicken) I was in high school when I heard that song and it blew me away. Take a listen to this one and pretend you're still living in the 60's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWsnaFsO47Y

[Donna Dodd]

Wow! Thanks for sharing, Wayne!!!

[Brooks Montgomery]

Man, that song still works, sadly, oh too well.

[Ron Hogan]

Suicide

Tom T. Hall, the Country Music Hall of Fame songwriter who died last August at 85, took his own life at his home in Franklin, Tennessee, the Williamson County Medical Examiner’s office confirmed to Rolling Stone on Wednesday.

When reached on the phone by Rolling Stone, a spokesperson for the Medical Examiner’s office said the “manner of death was ruled a suicide.” According to the medical report obtained by the country music blog Saving Country Music, which first reported the story, a 911 call was placed at 11:15 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 20, and “paramedics confirmed death at approximately 1133 hours, due to obvious injuries.”

[Paul King]

I was surprised to see those results. I guess having money and fame does not buy happiness. Who knows, Tom might have had some health issues as well. At any rate, I sure enjoyed his songs.

[Craig Stock]

https://www.savingcountrymusic.com/on-t ... lls-death/

[Diane Diekman]

This is what I posted in my December 1st newsletter:

Stacy Harris reports in Stacy's Music Row Report that she is “sadly (with a mixture of frustration, anger and disbelief, though, honestly, not shock) the first journalist to confirm” that Tom T. Hall died by suicide. He died August 20 at his home in Franklin, Tennessee, at age 85.

Saving Country Music learned about it from my readers and then did additional research.

[Johnny Cox]

It's sad to me that everyone thinks they need to know and share the details of Tom's death. Now that's the primary thing people will remember.
#dogsbecausepeoplesuck

[Daniel Dickie]

I was pretty shocked to read this "news" last night but as Diane Diekman has said it has already been reported by herself.
I feel sad thinking about Tom's last hours and that he may have been struggling mentally and physically.
I had ideallistically thought that his family and friends would have been by his bedside as he was passing away but obviously this was not the reality.
I hope he received all the help that he could throughout his life and had thought about other ways of dying. I'm not sure what the status of voluntary assisted dying is in the USA.
I just hope that he didn't suffer.
This whole situation opens a lot of questions about the health and wellness of elderly people and lonely people everywhere.
Tom T. Hall will always be one of my country music heroes.

[Bruce Meyer]

There are some things that we all don't need to know.