Tom Vandenavond

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I Can't Help It (If I'm Still In Love With You) 00:00 Tools
Wreck of a Fine Man 00:00 Tools
Bones 00:00 Tools
Even the Olives Are Bleedin' 00:00 Tools
95 Pound Woman 00:00 Tools
Postmark West Baton Rouge 00:00 Tools
Home to Stay 00:00 Tools
In the Bighorn Mountains 00:00 Tools
Lost Claim 00:00 Tools
The Travelin' Kind 00:00 Tools
Dear Dirty Dublin 00:00 Tools
Stay Away from All That Whisky 00:00 Tools
Them Travelers 00:00 Tools
Pawned All My Freedom 00:00 Tools
John B. Stetson 00:00 Tools
To the Sunny Slopes of Long Ago 00:00 Tools
Busted Knuckles 00:00 Tools
Meet Me at Weber's Deck 00:00 Tools
Steak N Eggs with Gristle 00:00 Tools
Where They Say You Been Livin' 00:00 Tools
Good Lord Give Us A Sign 00:00 Tools
Hotel Lafayette 00:00 Tools
No No No Yeah Yeah Yeah in Nebraska 00:00 Tools
How the West Was Lost 00:00 Tools
Rounds Of Rum 00:00 Tools
Cajun Jole 00:00 Tools
A Gambler's Prayer 00:00 Tools
Our Great Lakes Home 00:00 Tools
Times Ain't Like They Used To Be 00:00 Tools
Anyway, But Now I Gotta Go 00:00 Tools
Wrong Way to Run 00:00 Tools
Poor Boy / Soldier's Joy 00:00 Tools
Glass and Bricks 00:00 Tools
Loli's Lullaby 00:00 Tools
Wandering Boy 00:00 Tools
You Oughta Know Me By Now 00:00 Tools
I'm Doing this for You 00:00 Tools
First Snowfall 00:00 Tools
Johnny Macrae 00:00 Tools
Oaxaca 00:00 Tools
Alberta 00:00 Tools
Ol' Mooner McGee 00:00 Tools
A Rainy Country 00:00 Tools
Where That Sinkin' Sun Done Gone 00:00 Tools
Lady Whiskey 00:00 Tools
Ghost in the Graveyard 00:00 Tools
Lost On The Bottle Again 00:00 Tools
The Likes of Me 00:00 Tools
Where I'm Calling From 00:00 Tools
Rustbelt 00:00 Tools
The Finer Things 00:00 Tools
Vacilando 00:00 Tools
Knights Ferry 00:00 Tools
Jackrabbit, Arizona 00:00 Tools
The Landlady 00:00 Tools
Let it Lie 00:00 Tools
For The Good One 00:00 Tools
No Me Digas Eso 00:00 Tools
I Can't Help It If I'm Still In Love With You 00:00 Tools
Vuelvo 00:00 Tools
South Texas Christmas 00:00 Tools
Stick with me 00:00 Tools
Baby I'm Crazy 00:00 Tools
Ha Ha, This Way 00:00 Tools
Greetings from the Salty Old Gulf Coast 00:00 Tools
How She Was 00:00 Tools
To Leave This Flatland Prairie 00:00 Tools
55 Sullivan Place 00:00 Tools
Sardinia 00:00 Tools
Endtimes 00:00 Tools
Dance Me Around 00:00 Tools
Chef's House 00:00 Tools
Losing Time 00:00 Tools
All I Got Left is You 00:00 Tools
Sea Level 00:00 Tools
Even The Olives Are Bleeding 00:00 Tools
A Good Saloon 00:00 Tools
So Long to the Traveling Kind 00:00 Tools
The World Is All Wrong 00:00 Tools
You Can Count on Me 00:00 Tools
Big Two Hearted River 00:00 Tools
The Travellin' Kind 00:00 Tools
We Were Cowboys Then 00:00 Tools
The Saint Streets 00:00 Tools
St. Paul 00:00 Tools
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Tom VandenAvond (TVA) was born and reared in Titletown/Green Bay, Wisconsin and moved to Austin, Texas in 1999 after living in Ireland, England and Spain. TVA has performed all over the US and Europe. A Gambler's Prayer is his second album of all original songs. His self-titled first album is fan favorite when he joins forces with The Weary Boys as his backing band. His 3rd release is due out before the end of the 2008. Tom VandenAvond embodies everything that makes alt-country awesome. He's got a surly, drank-too-much-last-night-and-now-I-gotta-perform attitude, a killer take-no-shit slogan ("You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas"), and even an authentic trucker cap (no Hot Topic poseury here). One can hear wisps of such late greats as Jimmie Rodgers or even Huddie Ledbetter in VandenAvond's songs, which alternate between good ol' country and low-key folksy ballads about murdering cops in churches and other lurid subjects. His vocals are rich with twang and as raw as whiskey, and he could quite possibly match Tom Waits someday for grit, as he croons out subdued menace at times. But even when VandenAvond spins a yarn in "Lost on the Bottle" about possibly engaging in alcohol-fueled spousal abuse ("Some days I got mean things on my mind/There's an odd chance I might treat that woman unkind/If she don't pay me mind she might wind up in the pines"), you get the feeling it's sung with a playful wink. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.