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Greg Tamblyn
Saving The World From Whiny Victim Love Songs
Genres: Folk 'n Roll / Americana Comedy Positive / New Thought
Price: $22.95
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Songs and Samples
Advisory: Contains Anti-Depressive Lyrics
Disk One: Live Tracks
Note: The live tracks disc is an "enhanced" CD, meaning if you put it in your computer it can either play like a regular CD, or like a CD-ROM. If you open the CD-ROM (on most computers it opens automatically) you immediately hear a track of All These Atoms and see a menu. You can choose to watch the video demo, check out all the song lyrics, or do some other stuff.
The Shootout At The I'm OK, You're OK Corral
Common Side Effects Include*
My Life Is A Beer Commercial
Writer's Block (The Long Term Positive and Negative Effects of Worry)
The Great Liver Standoff of 1965
Control Issues (Intro)
Railroad Bill
Top 10 Whiny Victim Love Songs
I'd Like To Be The Man My Dog Thinks I Am
Passing Trains
Clyde, My Inner Guide
I Thought I Would Miss Her
A Few Words About Dying More Than Once
Near Death Experience
Dr. Jerko (Intro)
Type A-Ness (duet with Dr. Jerko)
My Ride Home From Neptune
* Winner of the 2004 Best Comedy/Novelty Song (out of over 140,000 songs submitted) in the Just Plain Folks Music Awards.
Disk Two: Studio Tracks
Just a Little Soul Hanging Out In Space*
Standing Still
Love Will Come Around
Roberto's Song (How Could It Be Better Than This)
All These Atoms
I Don't Know (Exactly Where I'm Going)
One Day On The Fields Of France (a true story)
The Grand Design
Amazon
Stand Like Mountain, Move Like Water
What We Want From Other People
My Family
The Hallways Of My Mind
Chasin' A Dream (The Golf Song)
So Much Love
(Can't You Just) Feel My Love
Self Employment Made Harder By Different
Boss
* Winner of the 2005 Humor Award in the first-ever New-Thought Music Awards
Some Nice Things People Have Said
Musically, Tamblyn dabbles in several styles, with the bluesy ode to 'Leftovers' providing the album's finest melody. But what listeners will remember most, and what has earned Tamblyn his acclaim, is his knack for writing insightful, often amusing lyrics.
- Pitch Weekly,
Kansas City ("Art From the Heart")
Love is not the only universal language, at least not in the mind of musician Greg Tamblyn, who uses his music to help people look on the bright side of a sometimes stressful life. People have always been inspired and entertained by Tamblyn's music.
- Gwinnett Daily Post,
Lawrenceville, GA (Atlanta area)
Tamblyn was a big hit. He both dazzled and inspired.
- Kane County (IL) Chronicle
About Greg Tamblyn
THE PRESS KIT BIO
When you consider that most of the songs from Nashville are about broken hearts, shattered dreams, and mamas getting run over by pickups, it's no surprise that songwriter Greg Tamblyn finally found a new niche. Tamblyn is much too successful to sing the country-western blues. He's just released his 5th CD, he's playing concerts all over the country, and he's even a sought after entertainer at health and wellness seminars.
Tamblyn left his hometown Kansas City in 1986, stifled by a lack of opportunities. Oh sure, he was playing local bars, and he'd been rated "Best Male Vocalist in Kansas City" by a local newspaper. He'd even sold a couple of songs to a country singer from the Philippines. But the lure of Nashville was too great. Eventually, he landed a writing job for a Nashville song publisher. Along with having some of his songs recorded by country artists, Tamblyn successfully released his own single, "It's Another Joyful Elvis Presley Christmas." It caught the attention of radio stations and reviewers around the country, and was named "Christmas Single of the Year" in Cashbox magazine.
Then the Cayman Islands Hyatt offered him a gig. Remember that pool bar that Gene Hackman sat near in The Firm? The singer in the background could have been Tamblyn. Except by that time, he'd left, burned out by tourists wanting to hear "Margaritaville" for the 896th time. He wanted to sing his own songs.
Then he was asked to play a wellness conference at Duke University Medical Center. With songs such as "The Shootout at the I'm OK, You're Ok Corral," and "My Life is a Beer Commercial," he was a smash hit. The brochure for the conference listed Tamblyn as a member of the seminar's faculty. Where initials such as M.D. and Ph.D. followed the other presenterâs names, the listing for Tamblyn was followed by N.C.W., which stands for 'No Credentials Whatsoever'.
With humorous songs about inner guides named Clyde and environmental slowpokes who think the greenhouse effect means crummy tomatoes, Tamblyn has found a huge audience. In addition to his public concerts, he's played for groups as diverse as the Department of Defense and the American Holistic Medical Association.
Stories from his life and songwriting have been featured in several recent books, including "Stressed Is Desserts Spelled Backwards", by Brian Luke Seaward; "Shelter For The Spirit", by Victoria Moran; and "Art and Soul", by Pam Grout.
THE MORE CORPORATE TYPE OF BIO
Greg has spent much of the last 15 years performing across the U.S. and internationally. A frequent guest at conventions, conferences, and corporate events, he has delighted listeners from Beijing to Boston, and from Canada to the Caribbean. Greg's "outrageously healthy" doses of humor, combined with powerful songs and storytelling tailored to each audience, deliver a relevant and entertaining message about the human side of organizational change that lasts long after each person resumes his or her daily routine.
A Kansas City native, Greg has appeared on The Nashville Network (TNN). Nashville also serves as Greg's his second home, where this talented singer-songwriter continues to write and record songs that celebrate the passion and humor of life at work and beyond. He has released five CDs since 1992, and his songs have been recorded internationally by other artists.
THE EXOTIC BIO
Greg Tamblyn was raised on a fishing boat in the Bahamas. He was illiterate until the age of thirteen, when his father traded a large yellowfin tuna for a guitar and some Hardy Boys mysteries, and taught him tp play music and read. His mother helped him learn harmony and write his first songs.
After his father's untimely death in a shark hunting accident, his mother became fascinated by voodoo and emigrated to Haiti. Left on his own, Greg sailed the family boat to New Orleans and sold it, using the money to attend college, where (like Roy Orbison) he studied geology. While singing at night on the streets of the French Quarter, he was discovered by a music publisher who brought him to Nashville and got him a job at a well known health food restaurant. There he was able to meet influential people in the music business and develop a taste for tofu.
In Nashville and afterward, Greg has written and recorded five albums. As well as more serious songs, they feature off-the-wall tunes about pop psychology, beer commercials, and other musical musings on our often-crazy culture. He has appeared internationally and had songs recorded by other artists from Canada to the Philippines.
Recently Greg was back in the Bahamas, singing to a packed house, writing new songs for his next album, and searching for the rogue shark that killed his father.
News and Reviews
Saving the World from Whiny Victim Love Songs is a hoot and a half. The full hoot comes on the first, live disc, which is devoted almost entirely to comedy.
Titles like 'The Shootout at the I'm OK, You're OK Corral' and 'The Great Liver Standoff of 1965' are made to force a smile all on their own, but Tamblyn's humor is deeper than gimmicky titles. His timing would be the envy of many a standup comedian. 'Railroad Bill', a diaphragm-rattling tale of a writer, his hero and a wayward cat, would lose at least half its effectiveness with a less perfect delivery. His dry humor gives a touch of pathos to the absurd heartbreak of 'Passing Train's and a touch of real tension to 'Near Death Experience.'
Not that these songs are entirely dependent on delivery; Tamblyn has a knack for a well-turned phrase or a sly and painful pun, and isn't afraid to show off an optimism rare in observational humor.
And he has an excellent partner, not in his occasional vocal allies, but in his guitar. It strums along or interjects with notes of disbelief or amazement, sometimes acting as a melodic straight man and sometimes as the wacky sidekick.
The half a hoot comes on the studio tracks disc. While generally more serious in tone, there are a few smiles to be found, lurking in a line or two or hiding at the tail end of the album. But for the most part, this is where Tamblyn shows his more thoughtful side. His unusual optimism is still at work here, adding levity to thoughts on existence and finding a hopeful side in the most depressing of human actions 'One Day on the Fields of France'. This disc isn't as packed with instant hits as the live disc, but is rather more durable and far more comfortable to hear in private.
Humor is best shared; the lessons in these songs are, for the most part, the sort of quiet wanderings best done alone.
- Sarah Meador
Rambles.net
Even before you've cracked the cellophane, Kansas City singer-songwriter Tamblyn has already started scoring points. First, of course, with the attention-getting album title, then with song titles like 'The Shootout At The I'm OK, You're OK Corral,' 'My Life Is A Beer Commercial,' 'I'd Like To Be The Man My Dog Thinks I Am,' and 'Self-Employment Made Harder By Difficult Boss.' If you're expecting funny, you've come to the right place with the Live Tracks CD, recorded at various KC locations, which is a riot. Tamblyn's combination of penetrating wit, shrewd insight, deftness with words, amiable stage presence, and dry delivery makes this the funniest, most laugh out loud musical humor I've heard since Katie Lee (stipulating that I don't count Lord Buckley as music). The album is packed with 'Let me just play you this one song' tracks, with 'Top 10 Whiny Victim Love Songs' being my own first pick. It's hard to resist quoting some of Tamblyn's lines, well OK, just this one: 'I had a near death experience at the Blue Moon lounge last night, I looked up and saw my wife pass right before my eyes' (Near Death Experience).
- John Conquest
3rd Coast Music