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“I’m not much good to anybody feeling this way…..”
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Our nation has officially jumped the shark….
Today’s column is now available. You can read it here…
“Nobody is more willing to publicly proclaim their religiosity than somebody intent on using that religion as a club to beat a weaker person down….”
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The new album is here. “Floods, Pills, Forsaken People and More Songs About Trains” is now available…
Download/Stream* the new album here…
Billie Holiday On the Train
It’s Raining Everywhere
Backwards Train
You’ll Figure It Out
The Ghost of Son House
Another Katrina Song
Say a So Long
The Risk Is a Train
Will the Lights Stay On Without Me?
Rollin’ Easy
Long Live Lonesome
Stay Shining
All Songs by Tom Flannery
copyright 2025/2026
Tom Flannery
guitar, vocals, harmonica
recorded in the Home Office
Archbald, PA
Canadian management – Lorne Clarke
Plains PA management – Paulie Young
Special thanks to Kris Kehr and Van Wagner
* once you purchase music on Bandcamp you can stream it either directly from the page, or via their free app, which you can download on your phone. It works just like Spotify…except we (the artist) actually get paid. Weird I know.
You can be old-fashioned and download the tracks as well, but you don’t have to.
“Our democratic ‘norms’ now seem to be conjured up by a ouija board….”
“It’s wild waiting on the Navy Seals to pop up on the shores of Lake Minnetonka….”
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“They managed to build their own culture….”
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“…within minutes comment sections were filled with the sort of armchair gibberish I’ve come to expect from guys I went to high school with who still live with their Moms…”
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“Somebody at the State Department should probably get Paul Bremer on the phone…”
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Mike Stevens
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Tom Flannery and the Shillelaghs
A Good Night Was Had For Days
Available Now
10 new songs
Tom Flannery and Bret Alexander
Available Now
10 new songs
Tom Flannery and the Shillelaghs
Available Now
11 new songs
Tom Flannery and Bret Alexander
Available Now
11 new songs
Tom Flannery and Bret Alexander
Available
Now
Some of the best storytelling and wit
this side of John Prine and Loudon Wainwright.....
more great work from a prolific talent
–Mike Naydock / OurTownRadio
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