is a Grammy Award-winning composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist who has applied his musical sensibilities to a broad spectrum of projects. As with so many late baby-boomers, Tom got his musical start watching the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show. He was 7, and he'd seen his future. Sort of... For the next 20 years he played in a variety of rock and roll bands, bluegrass groups, and duos in his native Oklahoma City and his adopted homeland of Boulder, Colorado. He released his first self-produced album, Paradox Found in 1986. Pursuing his interests in world music he then released Rock Music (musical compositions from the sounds of resonatings stones,1989), and Track to Bumbliwa (a collaboration with James Harvey and Australian Aboriginal singers recorded in, and based on the native music of Australia,1991). Tom spent the next two years collecting material for The World Sings Goodnight (a collection of international lullabies by 33 different singers from around the world, 1993). A film score for the mountain biking film Tread followed in 1994 ,then his collaboration with his wife Susan, entitled Many Moons in 1995. A sequel to The World Sings Goodnight was followed by his first award-winning collaboration with Joanne Shenandoah in 1996, Matriarch. 1998 has seen the release of Under the Green Corn Moon (a collection of Native American lullabies sung by fifteen different native singers). Many records later Tom won a Grammy in 2003 for his production of Mary Youngblood's Beneath the Raven Moon. Tom is also the founder on The Lost Angel Stone Ensemble, a performing and touring ensemble of resonating stone instruments. Tom's favorite pastime outside of his family is collecting and building unusual instruments from around the world.
had hardly a clue when she first started taking guitar lessons from a local upstart musician type (Tom Wasinger) that she would soon learn alot more than a C7 chord on the guitar. After studying Film and Video production at UCLA and Anthropology at University of Colorado, she lived abroad in Switzerland and Italy for two years. Upon returning to Boulder for graduate studies, she took up the guitar again which she had played on and off since 5th grade. After their first lesson, Tom maneuvered her into his last late night teaching spot. Next lesson, he asked her afterwards out for a coffee. The next lesson he gave her a tour of his recording studio, and next thing you know, she was singing back-up vocals on a cut for a demo he was producing. Things snowballed rapidly. Today, one mortgage, two children, a couple of recording contracts and a dozen years later they have collaberated on the critically acclaimed Many Moons album, several movie score tracks, commercials, and music for dance. Susan both sings and sometimes writes lyrics for the couple's songs. But in her waking life, Susan gives her heart and soul to another favorite pursuit - graphic design. She is the award-winning designer of dozens of books, posters, catalogs, and now digital media and web sites for clients from Aspen to Japan. Her graphic aesthetic graces the covers of most Tom Wasinger albums including the World Sings Goodnight albums, Rock Music, Many Moons, Track to Bumbliwa, and the cover illustration for Under the Green Corn Moon.
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the Green Corn Moon
