<p>Nashville's Tommy Womack writes about his life as a road musician, childhood, alcoholism, Jesus, Dad, Fender Telecasters, high school, drugs and a slew of other things in a rollicking, hair-raising, and damned funny narrative. "A brilliant book by one of Nashville's finest singer-songwriters. For round pegs in square holes everywhere." - John Hia</p>

dust bunnies: a memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Womack, Tommy Glynn

Arts & Literature

Tommy Womack

In this recently discovered packet of 19th Century correspondence between brother and sister Albert and Elsie Devereaux of Clarksville, Tennessee, Nashville musician and writer Tommy Womack presents the solid proof that the Lavender Boys - an all gay Confederate regiment - really did exist, did fight and did indeed put on one hell of a Christmas show. Albert, a 20-year-old Confederate soldier, is a homesick closeted homosexual living in an era most unkind to any gay male no matter what room he's in. Albert survives the horrors of Shiloh and proves himself to his fellow soldiers. He rises to the rank of Captain, his secret safe, while consistently being the right gay man in the right gay place at the right gay time. Albert' sister Elsie, seven years older, lives back home with their hostile stepfamily, the Jansches. Always prone to hearing voices, Elsie's grip on reality unravels over the course of their letters, with grisly, murderous consequences. The letters end with Albert's death at the battle of Gettysburg, leaving historians to ponder the true motives behind Pickett's suicidal charge, and whether Robert E. Lee knowingly sacrificed the lives of thousands of men just to eradicate existence - and any evidence - of the one regiment in his army that knew how to properly accessorize.

The Lavender Boys and Elsie

Literature & Fiction

United States

<p>In 1985, three other guys and I -- in Kentucky, of all places -- formed a band, hitched our sled to the rock and roll dream, and screamed mush from the pits of our souls. We had nothing going for us save a vehement, greasy, turbo-psychotic vision of how things might turn out, and we went for it. It is good to pursue an outlandish dream. Latch on to the wild dogs. Grab that whip and yee-the-hell-hah! Eventually the sled comes out from under you, and from that point on, you either run like hell or you get your face dragged all over God's creation, scraping on rocks and bouncing off the sides of trees. There will be great incidence of contusions, highway motel dog breath and bottle-ringed cocktail napkin blitherscribble. Things move faster and faster. Everything you packed for the trip -- relationships, standards, your future -- gets tossed or bounce off somewhere, and all the while, you know you can stop and at any time, just by letting go of the dream. Under no circumstances whatsoever do you let go of the dream.</p>

Cheese Chronicles

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Books by Tommy Womack

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dust bunnies: a memoir

The Lavender Boys and Elsie

Cheese Chronicles