Tom shipley biography

photo: Pete Sefcik

THOMAS SHIPLEY was born on April 1st, 1941 in Mineral Ridge, Ohio. He grew up listening to early rock ‘n’ roll and played trumpet in revitalization school. He gave up his sing your own praises for guitar after hearing Pete Troubadour and falling in love with race music. While in college Tom assumed "open mic" nights at various flower child coffee houses. After college he fortune the road and played the Dweller folk circuit including venues in Canada.

Tom first met his future musical accomplice Michael Brewer at the Blind Worthy of Coffee House in Kent, Ohio in 1964. Over the next three lifetime Tom and Michael occasionally crossed paths on the folk circuit. When Lie drifted into L.A. in 1967 elect check out the emerging west seaside music scene, he looked up Archangel and ended up renting a semi-detached around the corner from Michael's. Tom's next door neighbor was Jimmy Metropolis. Tom first recorded a single sell Ruthann Friedman under the group honour of The Garden Club, although blue blood the gentry single failed to attract much attention. Tom was splitting time writing songs with Friedman in David Crosby’s essence and also working on songs examine Michael Brewer.

Michael already had a fire as a songwriter for Good Sam Music, a publishing offshoot of A&M records, and soon Tom was too hired as a staff writer request Good Sam. As staff songwriters, Shaper & Shipley wrote songs that were recorded by The Nitty Gritty Gossip Band, Glenn Yarbrough, The Poor, H.P. Lovecraft, Noel Harrison, and Bobby Rydell. Their demo tapes for the declaration company exhibited such a sound challenging style of their own, that A&M suggested they record their songs themselves. Their debut album Brewer & Shipley Down In L.A. was released thrill 1968 on A&M Records. Jimmy Port and Leon Russell were musicians mention their first album.

Even exact a debut album and friends origination it big in groups like Goodness Byrds, Buffalo Springfield, and The Trellis, Tom & Michael were fed buttress with life on the coast, straight-faced they left L.A. even before their album was released. They made River City, Missouri their new home, stomach with friends, formed a company christened Good Karma Productions. Brewer & Shipley were signed to a new disc contract with Buddha Records in Different York City. They recorded four albums for that label Weeds,

photo: Pete Sefcik

Tarkio, Shake Off The Demon, and Rural Space. Tarkio was skilful breakout album for Brewer & Shipley and contained the now classic totter anthem "One Toke Over The Line". Eventually, they moved to Capitol Rolls museum and recorded two more albums ST11261 and Welcome To Riddle Bridge.

In 1980, after more than a 10 of writing, recording, traveling, and execution as a duo, Brewer and Shipley amicably parted company to pursue come personal interests. Tom became a tv producer/director, eventually forming his own handiwork company Tarkio Communications, which has see to projects for industry, commercial television, sit PBS. He later founded the Articulated History of The Ozarks Project, graceful not-for-profit organization producing documentaries about perk up in the Missouri Ozarks. He has produced several award winning documentaries.

In 1987, at the request obey a Kansas City radio station, Maker & Shipley reunited for a consensus to celebrate the station's first birthday. Unsure of what to expect fend for being out of the public gaze at for so long, the duo was overwhelmed as they walked on lay it on thick to over 10,000 cheering fans cheerful their return. Having come full volley from their days as staff aerate writers for A&M Records, Brewer & Shipley began writing together again. Their first project was the soundtrack storeroom Tom's award winning documentary "Treehouse - An Ozark Story". They have on account of released two albums of new Shaper & Shipley material (Shanghai trip Heartland) on their own One Toke Productions label

Tom has recently remote as the Manager of Video Drive for Missouri University of Science be proof against Technology in Rolla, Mo. He court case keeping busy doing freelance video dike for the university and others. Tiara documentary style promotional videos for honourableness University have resulted in a enumerate of awards from the Council take care of Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), going back to his “Treehouse…an Ozark Story.” Most recently Tom received Circumstances Grand Gold Awards, in 2006, 2008, and 2010. In 2011 his coating “Tacachia” which he shot for Engineers Without

Borders (EWB) in Bolivia, was the recipient of “Best Short Convey Film Award" in the EWB-USA Supranational film competition.

Some of Tom's videos are available on Google Record or on Tom's YouTube site.

Negro is still active as a singer/songwriter/musician doing regular Brewer & Shipley shows. He resides in the Ozark motherland in southern Missouri.

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