This is another of the videos I occasionally post to YouTube, this time featuring the lovely Kat Drake (of Cloak & Dagger). Check out her videos as well!

Here’s another song in my series of videos on YouTube, some of which have been featured on the front page! This is a cover of one of my favorite standards. Hope you enjoy!

(This post was originally written for my arts and culture blog on Salon, Buzzkiller. All postings from that blog will also be reposted here.)
Today, the NYTimes, my go-to source for rant-inspiring material, ran an article entitled “Country’s New Face: It’s Young and Blonde”. Hearkening back to sometime in the early 18th century, the piece expresses [...]

This is a new-ish song of mine, sung in an airless cube in the Stanford music building. No external microphones! No amps! Absolutely no talent involved!

Many thanks to all those who made this video possible, especially the fantastic friend and dastardly director Chad Peiken, the gorgeous gendarme Judy Courtland, the crafty cinematographer Kelly Jones, and the phenomenal photographer Suzan Jones! Woo!

A song by one of my favorite piano girls, Fiona Apple. I would marry her. Right now. No questions asked.

Here’s a posting I wrote on Gather.com concerning one of the songs on my Decca EP, “Room In Your Heart.” If you want to see the fascinating comment conversation that follows, and a list of a lot of people’s favorite love songs, click here.
Though I wrote “Room In Your Heart” especially to sing with Ema [...]

This is a song I’ve always loved, about an imaginary conversation between Howard Cosell and Muhammad Ali. Bette Midler covered it on an album once. Isn’t it pretty?

Okay, so it’s not my favorite song anymore. But it was. This essay was written as part of a little thing that Nick Hornby ran to help advertise “Songbook,” a book full of essays about his own favorite songs. It won me a free copy of his book. Sweet. Excerpt follows:
“A W H [...]

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I’m putting this welcome, best-of-tommywallach.com post up here at the top of the page, where it will live forever, so that I can keep all the other posts beneath it live. Here are links to some of the more interesting posts on this page, to get you started in the magical world [...]