Galleywinter

Want to have the ultimate LJT Texas Music Fest experience?

Of course you do, and for the 4th straight year, Galleywinter brings you the opportunity to win the Ultimate LJT Giveaway!

WHAT YOU COULD WIN:

Grand prize includes:
-1 pair of 4-day festival tickets!
-Special meet ‘n greet tour with Larry Joe Taylor and other artists!
-Campfire acoustic concert to be held at your campsite** featuring William Clark Green and surprise guests!

2nd prize: 1 pair of 3 day tickets

3rd prize: 1 pair of 2 day tickets

HOW TO ENTER:

1. FOLLOW Galleywinter on Twitter (@galleywinter)

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2.  LIKE Galleywinter on Facebook (/galleyw)

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3. RSVP as attending to the Ultimate LJT Giveaway Event on Facebook

4.  Leave a comment on this article with your name, your hometown and how many years you’ve attended  LJT?  (ie. John Doe. Dallas, TX. 4).

The contest runs from March 10 to April 10 at 5PM CST.

Winners will be chosen by random drawing and notified/announced on April 11th.

*Prize does NOT include campsite reservations and winners are responsible for securing their own camping spots.

**If a winner is found to be ineligible for any reason (such as not following Galleywinter on Twitter or not RSVP’d to the Facebook event) winners will be redrawn.

***If for some reason, the winner’s campsite is found to be inadequate for the campsite concert, the show will be moved to an alternate location nearby.

Tom Gillam was born in Deptford, New Jersey, and was primarily raised in Camden, New Jersey. As the son of a nuclear power plant cooling system design engineer and a stay-at-home mom and member of a 5 child household with 4 boys and 1 girl, Tom says he had a great childhood. Tom’s paternal grandfather and great uncle were musicians in the 1920′s in Schmoken, Pennsylvania, and his brother Michael has played drums with John Waite since 2010 as well as having credits as drummer for John Waite’s latest album, 2 of Tom’s albums and several other records over the years.

Tom picked up the guitar and played it through high school, but dropped it shortly after in lieu of taking vocal duties. Jumping into songwriting was a natural progression at the age of 22, and he also learned and added slide guitar to his arsenal. Tom’s primary musical ingestion was by no surprise the “So-Cal” country rock sounds of late 60′s and early 70′s bands such as Poco, The Flying Burrito Brothers, New Riders of the Purple Sage, The Byrds and others which finally manifested into bands like The Eagles. These and many others helped shape Tom’s musical tastes and stylings, but Tom has continued to branch out and enjoy MANY genres of music over the years. This diversity wasn’t limited to his musical enjoyment however, Tom even fronted a punk/new wave band in Philadelphia for awhile, and has played many different styles of music over the years in many bands including several of his own. Aside from being a professional musician his entire life, Tom has taken the occasional odd job working at a music or record store to help pay the bills, and lucky for us he has also gotten into the world of broadcast radio.

My first exposure to Tom was hearing a few of his southern/country rock songs on KNBT in New Braunfels. Tom also started hosting the Cosmic Power-Hour on February 21, 2010, and has filled KNBT’s airwaves with early country rock and Americana tunes most Sunday nights ever since. Tom’s show has become popular enough that the Cosmic Power-Hour was extended to a second hour, and Tom also began filling in during the morning shift from time to time when Wayne Fanning left New Braunfels Communications last summer after 21 years in Texas, most spent on the air in New Braunfels. Soon after, it was announced that Tom would co-host the morning show with Misty Malone on Tuesdays and Wednesdays with Tom going solo in the 9 o’clock hour.

Tom has also been involved in a couple of the Valmark Chevrolet’s Greatest Hits Live series concerts at the Brauntex Theater. Tom’s band performed a Creedence Clearwater Revival tribute show in November 2012, and Tom made a rare “vocals only” appearance as part of the local band Phantom 46 in February 2013 to perform a Bad Company tribute. Tom has also made numerous appearances at Gruene Hall leading song swaps, playing acoustic and full band shows, and has also played at about every other local venue you can name. Tom also does extensive traveling across the pond. He’s made overseas runs as Tom Gillam Band, as part of US Rails, The Drakes and many others. Tom has built quite a large network of friends and fans on both sides of the water, and with his growing catalog of records, this fanbase will definitely continue to expand.

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