Mike Will
Beautiful Collapse, I began noticing Tom at the 30-year anniversary tour of The Master and Musician. I have all of his albums on band camp. Thank you, Phil, for sharing your talent and friends.
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I first want to say that Tom Shinness was a truly gifted musician. He loved music and as a multi instrumentalist and vocalist, music just poured out of him like living water!
We became friends in the mid 80s. He had told me that he had listened to my recordings with great enjoyment. We shared the stage even back then, playing together songs like The Wind and The Wheat, Find Me In These Fields, and some of his songs as well.
We became friends and brothers and shared many of the same musical interests.
In 2007, he suggested we put my Master and The Musician album on tour with a band. I thought that was a big undertaking and I was unsure we could pull it off, but Tom’s faith and enthusiasm won me over and we together assembled a very good band with he and I and 5 more musicians—John Sferra, Rich Hordinski, Joel Jimenez and Bryan and Melissa Lautenbach. We did the whole album with all the parts played well by this gifted band of musicians! In fact, we also did a set of vocal songs too. I’m grateful there is a DVD of this concert.
In the years between 2004 and 2008 we recorded some songs in our respective home studios, which I desire to make available to our listeners and friends soon and have the proceeds go toward his loving daughters and the many medical expenses incurred during his illness. This is the CD is called Brothers and Friends.
I visited Tom often over his last few months and we played together on Nov 30 2016—his last performance in public.
He was amazing—he gave of himself, his music with heart and joyous passion the whole evening!
I realize, so deeply, what a great loss his passing is to all of us who knew and loved this beautiful, musical man Of God!”
Please visit the included web site and purchase his CDs and downloads. You will be blessed!
tomshinness.bandcamp.com
Thank you ~ Phil Keaggy
Dec 2, 2019
credits
released November 27, 2019
Enclosed in this disc is a collection of some of the songs Tom and I recorded together between 2002 and 2008.
It’s an instrumental CD except for the last tune.
Here’s a rundown of the songs.
The proceeds if this CD will go directly to Tom’s family.
• The Ark- by PK and TS~~recorded at Tom’s home studio. I played 1 electric guitar through a looper and all the other instruments were played by Tom. He took the improv piece to another level!
• Beautiful Collapse—In 2006, My friend Jason Truby came to record one of his songs here at my place. Actually we had recorded many tunes together. Like Tom, Jason plays many instruments and is a real musical soul mate! Tom added cellos and zither and other bits that actually raised the level of this song to new heights.
Jasmine, Tom’s daughter, told me she loved this song and here we have a new mix featuring her beautiful vocal. This makes this song extra special because both she and her dad, Tom are on it. All I did was play bass, record and mix. The rest of the instruments are Jason and Tom.
• Rest-by TS—I had recorded a number of tunes with Tom at my studio and this was one which he composed and played on his 1913 Gibson Harp Guitar. Just this past week, after Tom’s going to Heaven, did I add a Les Paul guitar part with the sweet tone Tom always liked to hear from me. Rest my dear friend….
• Caffeinated Desert-= by PK –On this piece, I played acoustic guitars and bass and Tom played piano with added ear candy bits. Mike Radovsky played drums.
• Mando and Guitar improv—by TS and PK~
I was searching an old hard drive for more pieces that Tom and I did, and this one came as a sweet and pleasant surprise! We just improvised in one take. I copied a sweet section and placed it in another spot in the tune.
• BCC Soundcheck- by TS and PK ~ We did a set together at Bellevue Community Church and this live recording happened at soundcheck---There are no overdubs! We just used loopers and had a a good time ! You can actually hear Tom laugh in this recording. I just recently re discovered this piece.
• Waltz—by PK and TS ~ I love this piece. I played the acoustic guitars and Tom played bass, fretless bass piano, cellos and penny whistle. Mike Radovsky played drums.
• Far East Of Cleveland—by PK and TS~ On this piece, I played 2 acoustic guitars and Tom played everything else, including the percussion~ and there’s a lot going on~ zithers, basses, strings and piano. He again brought my idea to a new and higher level!
• Cascading- by PK~ After I had created the guitar parts, Tom added flute, zithers and cellos. Jonathan Willis did horns and strings as well. Mike Radovsky played drums. Jonathon Willis provided the strings and horns. I can almost see the Swiss Alps! By the way, tracks 4,7,8 and 9 are on my Phantasmagorical CD. Jasmine Shinness, Tom’s daughter designed the beautiful cover for this album!
• Guitar and Bass improv-by PK and TS~~ This is the longest piece on the CD. We did improvise through the greater part of this piece with a couple of “punching in” points. This piece shows Tom’s great upright bass playing. I think Tom could play any instrument that was meant to be played.
• Old Friends-- this is a song that appeared on Still Life.. It was the chemistry between two friends that brings about the emotion and melody.
Like a good recipe for a tasty meal.
• Thank You For Today-by PK and words by Todd Albertson. This is the second vocal tune on this disc. I re sang the vocals and did a new mix where you can hear Tom’s cellos and vocal harmonies better. Besides cellos, Tom played harmonium (air organ), percussion and bass.
Phil Keaggy
Tracks-1,3,5,6,7,8 and 10 Produced by Phil Keaggy
and Tom Shinness
Track- 2 Produced by Jason Truby, Phil Keaggy and Tom Shinness
Tracks-4,9,11 and 12 Produced by Phil Keaggy
Track 2) jasontrubypublishing –ASCAP
Phil Keaggy publishing—sebastian boy music ASCAP
Tom Shinness music BMI
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