A smart, catchy acoustic and electric look at Sex and Drugs, Peace and Love . . . 40 Years Later

12 MP3 Songs
ROCK: Folk Rock, POP: Beatles-pop



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Tom is a singer/songwriter who began writing songs in high schoolâover forty years ago. He soon moved to New York City where he quickly placed songs with Peer Southern and Famous Music Publishing.

â40 Years Later, the new CD release from uber-songsmith Tom Griffith, is a semi-autobiographical collection of decadent and sweet-smelling tuneage to be worshipped over and over again. Itâs the white-knuckle thrill ride of the season; a pre-emptive strike to any summer blockbuster that thought it had a chance. Some records attempt to broaden your mind or expand your horizons. This one will beat you senseless, steal your lunch money, and then collapse the structure of the building that you're listening in. I feel sorry for people who listen in their cars. State Farm's going to be getting a lot of calls.â

- Mike Morrison, President - Digital Media Workshop

In the early seventies, Tom began a career in advertising, writing and producing countless TV and Radio commercials. He penned and produced jingles performed by Michael Bolton, Marc Cohn, Ry Cooder, Fats Domino, Dave Edmunds, Allen Toussaint, Jimmy Buffett, Kenny Rogers and George Benson. He won numerous awards, including Clios for Best Musical Campaign for Miller Genuine Draftâs Itâs As Real As It Gets and Xerox's Revolution campaign with The Art of Noise. He also garnered a Cannes Silver Lion for Hyundai's debut campaign, Cars That Make Sense.

During that time his work also appeared in several movies, including Beer, Night of the Creeps, Excessive Force, Caught in the Crossfire, Girlfriends, The Key, and the Martha Coolidge film Not a Pretty Picture. The Key, which he scored with Jonathan Helfand, won the 1996 National Education Fiction Video Award.

Tired of making music that was less than thirty seconds long, Tom left advertising (and the city) in the nineties and returned to his first love, songs. âYou Got Something on the Side,â â100 Real Good Reasons to Sing the Bluesâ and âThatâs My Version of a Good Idea,â which he co-wrote with Martha Trachtenberg and International Blues Challenge Award winner Toby Walker, appear on Tobyâs internationally acclaimed CDs, Toby Walker Plays Well with Others and Just Rolled In, both of which Tom produced. His production credits also include It's About Time by Martha Trachtenberg, which was featured in The New York Times and Newsday, and is played on acoustic music oriented radio stations throughout the country.

His first album, Hodge Podge, was released locally in 1997 and was chosen as an Album of the Year by the Long Island Press. 40 Years Later is Tomâs first national commercial release. He says âI wanted to write about issues that were important to us baby boomers back in the sixties, but looked at from todayâs perspective. In a funny way, it took me forty years to be able to write 40 Years Later. I feel like it was worth the wait.â