TOMMY WAS BORN IN CRYSTAL SPRINGS, MS AND BEING THE SON OF A MUSICIAN HE CUT HIS TEETH ON DRUMSTICKS, THEN PICKED UP PIANO, BASS AND GUITAR ALONG THE WAY.
TOMMY,S BIGGEST INFLUENCE IN MUSIC WAS HIS FATHER MR. CHARLES (charlie) CARMICHAEL (Sax; original rolling stones, elvis and many others,. band director at Gloster, MS)NEXT WAS MR. WILLIE LAMB (guitar; Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard). GROWING UP AROUND MUSICIANS, OF COURSE MUSIC BECAME A MAJOR PART OF HIS LIFE.
TOMMY'S FATHER HAD HIM KICKING DRUMS AT NATCHEZ UNDER THE HILL AT THE TENDER AGE OF 11, AT 14 HE WAS KICKING DRUMS IN NEW ORLEANS. BY THE TIME HE WAS 17, MR. WILLIE LAMB HAD HIM KICKING DRUMS AT THE MID SOUTH JAMBOREE IN LOUISANNA. HERE HE WAS INFLUENCED BY MANY OF THE GREAT. TOMMY WAS ONE OF THE FIRST MUSICIANS TO KICK DOUBLE-BASS'S AND DID IT THE HARD WAY, WITH JUST HIS FEET (NO DOUBLE BASS PEDALS BACK THEN BOYS!!)THIS TYPE KICKING CAUGHT THE EYE OF JOHNNY PAYCHECK AND HE HIRED TOMMY TO TOUR WITH HIM.
TOMMY HAS ALSO PLAYED ON STAGE WITH DANNY GATLIN, LORETTA LYNN TO NAME A FEW. HE HAS ALSO TOURED WITH RICK DERRINGER, WHILE TOURING OVER SEAS THEY HAD THE PRIVILEDGE OF PLAYING ON STAGE WITH MR. IAN ANDERSON.
HE HAS PLAYED WITH MANY BANDS THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH. DURING THIS TIME TOMMY GOT TO SIT IN WITH MANY ARTIST SUCH AS JOHNNY TAYLOR, CHARLIE PRIDE AND PERSEY SLEDGE.ONE OF THESE BANDS WAS MR. BOOTS HARRIS (steel guitar; Hank Williams, Sr.) AT A CLUB IN JACKSON, MS CALLED THE "HAT AND CANE". DURING THIS TIME HE WAS FORTUNATE TO MEET MR. RONNIE VANZANT.
TOMMY'S MUSIC TYPES INCLUDE "SOUTHERN ROCK". OUTLAW COUNTRY, COUNTRY, R&B AND GOSPLE, HIS ROOTS IS "SOUTHERN ROCK".
TOMMY ALSO WRITES HIS OWN MUSIC AND SINGS. HE CAN ALSO SING LEAD OR SECOND AND THIRD PART HARMONY.
TOMMY IS CURRENTLY THE MINISTER OF MUSIC/PIANO AT THE PROTESTANT CHAPEL, MERIDIAN NAVAL AIR STATION.
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