Bill Toms

 "Bill Toms is a poet, a soul-shouter, and guitar slinger with one foot in the gutter and an eye on the heavens above. And man, does he front a great rock n' soul band! "

- Will Kimbrough (Nashville 2011)





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Bill is also available for music and songwriter workshops and clinics.


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    • Get fired up for the show this Saturday!!!

      star your summer right!

    • I will be playing with Jill West and the Blues Attack on Saturday night at The Turners Club in Beaver Falls Pa. I am filling in for Gregg Krupa while he is on his honeymoon. Show starts at 9pm. Come on out...

    • Bill Toms Solo Acoustic at Bar Anticipation, Belmar, NJ 4/22/12 (Harpin' Help 2012)

      Hold On / Paying These Dues / Hard Times / Lord, Don't Take Me Now

      Electric Stage w/ Vini Lopez, Sandy Mack, Matt O'Ree, Eric Safka, Christopher Plunkett and background singers.

      Hoochie Coochie Man / Shake & Finger Pop / Pack Fair & Square

    • Bill Solo Acoustic 4/20/12

      I've Made Peace Now / Lord Don't Take me Now / 4th Of July

    • Great show at The Saint!!!!

      Set List for the show at The Saint/Asbury Park 3/30/12:

      Hard Times / Lord Don't Take Me Now / Ballad of Jimmy Jones / Won't Go To Memphis / Cover It Up / I've Made Peace Now / Move It On Down The Road w/Sandy Mack / Paying These Dues w/ Sandy Mack / Lay My Burden Down / Encore - Satan's On My Shoulder

    • Rick Allen Birthday Party 3/24/12

      Colleen Goodbye Paying These Dues Chasing a Dream Cover It Up Waiting on the Pain Lord, Don't Take Me Now Hootchie Cootchie Man Somebody Help Me Fisherman's Blues Weirton Soul Stew

      Won't Go To Memphis Miss You Missery (for me) Move It On Down The Road Shake and Fingerpop Another Round For the West End Kid Let's Make a Better World Mona Lisa Smile

      Satan's on My Shoulder

    • Dr. Z Presents Fan Appreciation Show

      Bill Toms and Hard Rain

      1) Colleen, Good-bye 2) Paying These Dues 3) City of Fear 4) Cover it Up 5) Waiting on the Pain 6) Lord Don't Take Me Now 7) Hootchie Cootchie Man 8) Somebody Help Me 9) Have a Little Faith in Me (new song) 10) Fisherman's Blues 11) Memphis Soul Stew

      12) I Won't Go To Memphis No More 13) Misery 14) Miss You 15) Move it on Down The Road 16) Shake and Finger Pop 17) Pack Fair and Square 18) Let's Make a Better World

      thanks to bill and the bands for doing a great job. It was an amazing night.

    • Bill- I'm looking forward your show at The Saint in Ashbury Park on March 30th as well as to you guys coming to the NC Hops and Roots Fest down here in NC on Memorial Day Weekend!!

    • An Excerpt from Ira's Blog:

      A year starts out with many promises and at the end of that year one looks back to see how one measures up to those lofty goals. Looking back at the past year’s resolutions, there are some that I’m proud of (since this is a music site, I’ll keep these resolutions mainly to the music resolutions and not family ones), starting off with pairing up Bill Toms and Will Kimbrough in January to record what turned out to be a great CD, Memphis. I’ve never been through that process from start to finish and it was fascinating!! Starting off with acoustic one off recordings by a great songwriter, bouncing ideas around as to how they fit together and if there is a commonality about them, coming up with a treatment, then hearing those songs come to life after being introduced to a great band and a producer of Will Kimbrough’s stature.

      It was a typical snowy week when we did the recording in Weirton, WV right outside of Pittsburgh, PA at Studio L, a house of engineer extraordinaire Rick Witkowski. It was like going back to college, shacking up in a house full of guys who were music geeks!! I’d go to see accounts during the day, usually using Will’s or Bill’s van, while the band recorded live tracks, then come back at night, cook dinner for the band, while having a cold beer and listening to fantastic music. After dinner we’d go downstairs and I’d watch them do overdubs, stay up late talking music... and then I’d get up and do it over again. I was able to stay for 4 days, the band for 5 and, while I’m sure it was old hat for these guys, it was an awesome learning experience for me!! Most memorable for me, outside of actually watching the sessions at night, were the moments I’d be upstairs doing follow up work after returning from visiting accounts, and hearing the music going on downstairs from these professionals... many was the time I’d have to tip toe ( so I wouldn’t mess up the recording) down there because it was so good, I just had to see what I was hearing!! The rave reviews were so nice to hear after watching all of the sweat which went into that process... incredible.. watching a piece of audible art being created and having it move other people!!! Way to go guys!

    • See you there!

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