An old friend of mine is doing Buffalo Bill. The ensemble is quite terrific. It's got a great energy, and it's a thoroughly enjoyable evening.
As I've gone along, I felt like I was discovering an aspect of my voice that I didn't know was there: an ability to interpret a song in a way that makes it more accessible.
I did I Love My Wife on Broadway in 1978, and then went into television land. Now things are starting to come together in the way I thought they might when I was a kid.
I had no real specific dream, other than I really wanted to do musical comedy. Even before that, when I was a small child, I wanted to be a singer.
I have no experience performing that music live in front of an audience. So that remains to be seen. I'm very excited to see what that's going to be like.
I knew guys who went to Vietnam. What I notice is that they don't talk about it much.
I listen to Steely Dan. I really like Steely Dan.
I sang opera, I sang show tunes. I got into a rock band for a while. I've sung a lot of different things.
I think now I'm being taken a little more seriously. That's pure conjecture on my part.
I was thinking it would be a great thing to get together with a pianist and work on the different song cycles again.
I'm facing upstage, with my back to the audience, and the spotlight comes up on my back as I start singing.
I'm now getting cast more legitimately, I think, than what might have happened earlier in my career after Dukes.
I've made it clear to my agents that I want more interesting stuff.
Irving Berlin just knows how to touch ya. It's a wonderful thing to discover this about music, even though I've loved music all my life.
It's amazing to hear, as a voice matures and then starts to decline, what kind of emotion is still conveyed by a really good vocalist.
It's expensive taking those jazz guys in-we had 18 strings for one day. We did the whole thing in about a week.
Stage musicals have always been the most fun, but it's hard to beat the time we had putting the record together.
The country experience was more of a departure. When you consider my education and my upbringing, you can see that was more of country rock outgrowth of my popular music aspirations.
The curtain comes up on the stage, with the band seated in bleachers, as they'd be at the Wild West Show. The characters are placed strategically around the stage in the dark.
There have been a lot of really good reviews, and a few spectacular reviews. So far, we're batting at least 900.
There were a couple of years when I wanted to be a football player, but I really always wanted to be a singer.
There's a guy at the record company who's 30, and he says, I would not listen to these songs except in this context. Somehow the recording process, the arrangements, make it more accessible.
These classic shows deserve to be revived. Otherwise, people have no context for these great songs which become such a visceral part of our awareness.
We're taking advantage of an aspect of my voice that wasn't exploited in my earlier efforts, which were more in a country vein.
When Billie Holiday sings a song, I hear the song, but I always hear her and her truth.
When you're doing the traditional musicals, singing songs that are 40 and 50 years old, you realize there's a reason why those musicals are hits. These are amazing songs!
With Schubert, a lot of the melodies are very simple, but he's in this groove. He's in touch with his heart.
In The Dukes of Hazzard, when it was Luke who was driving and Bo was riding shotgun, both John [Schneider] and Tom have said that it's harder climbing through the windows 'cause they weren't used to getting in on that side of the car.
He and John Schneider performed "Carryin' On" together, The Dukes of Hazzard: Reunion theme song.
Tom attended the University Of Wisconsin in Madison.
Tom has appeared in a video with Dolly Parton, Tammy Wynette and Loretta Lynn when they did "Silver Threads And Golden Needles."
Tom has brown hair and blue eyes.
Tom's kids are: Lindsey, Joey, Adam, Taylor, and Walker.
Much like his character on The Dukes of Hazzard, Tom spent time living on a farm. He grew up on a Wisconsin dairy farm with his six brothers and sisters (but no cousins or uncles).
Tom became famous with his portrayal of the older, more mature cousin "Luke Duke" in The Dukes of Hazzard.
Tom has his master's degree in music.
Tom appeared in the Broadway revival of Annie Get Your Gun with Bernadette Peters.
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