Greg Tamblyn

Shootout At The I’m OK, You’re OK Corral

Genres: 12 Step / Recovery Positive / New Thought

Price: $14.99

Other CDs By Greg Tamblyn

• Saving The World From Whiny Victim Love Songs

Songs and Samples

The Shootout At The I’m OK, You’re OK Corral
Just a Little Soul Hangin’ Out In Space*
I Have a Tendency For Codependency
They Know
A 21st Century Kind of Guy
I Drink, Therefore I Am
Love Will Come Around
Unconditional Love (The Story of Eve)
It's Never Too Late To Have A Happy Childhood
You Can’t Blame the Train
Have A Little Faith

*Winner of the 2005 Humor Award in the first-ever New-Thought Music Awards

Some Nice Things People Have Said

I love the messages you are spreading through your music! I am sure you are Chicken Soup for a lot of Souls out there in the world. Keep writing and singing!
-Jack Canfield,
Author of Chicken Soup for the Soul

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

If music is the universal language and laughter is the best medicine, then Greg Tamblyn has a license to heal anywhere in the world.
-Topeka Capitol-Journal, Topeka, KS

No Contest! This is the cleverest musical take on modern life. Your cheeks will hurt from laughter as your heart fills with empathy.
-PJ Birosik,
Yoga Journal