Tommy Womack

Saturday, February 9, at the Beachland Tavern.

By Michael Gallucci on Wed, Feb 6, 2008 at 4:00 am

Tommy Womack alt-country Replacements

[
      {
        "name": "Ad - NativeInline - Injected",
        "component": "38482495",
        "insertPoint": "3",
        "requiredCountToDisplay": "5"
      },{
        "name": "Real 1 Player (r2) - Inline",
        "component": "38482494",
        "insertPoint": "2/3",
        "requiredCountToDisplay": "9"
      }
    ]

Back in 2002, Nashville singer-songwriter Tommy Womack wrote an eight-minute song called "The Replacements" about everybody's favorite Minneapolis fuckups. He also penned "Whatever Happened to Cheetah Chrome?" — about the former guitarist for Cleveland's Dead Boys — for his 1998 debut, Positively Na Na. The guy knows his punk history. And his songs — while firmly rooted in the roots-rock genre favored by No Depression readers — certainly have a bit of an attitude about them. But Womack is a smarter and shrewder songwriter than these potentially gimmicky examples let on. His latest CD, There, I Said It!, chronicles his futile and funny quest for rock stardom while giving twangy shout-outs to Death Cab for Cutie along the way. Womack also wrote a book last year called The Lavender Boys & Elsie, which compiled a bunch of fake Civil War-era letters from an all-gay Confederate regiment. Always the joker.