R.I.P. Country music's storyteller Tom T. Hall, 1936-2021

Sadly, songwriter Tom T. Hall – who penned many more classic tunes than Harper Valley P.T.A. – has passed away. He'll be missed.

Sharon Ely remembers Tom T. Hall

Tom T. Hall having a cold one at Stubb's BBQ in Lubbock, Texas.

Tom was a great friend to STUBB’S and Joe Ely and Paul Milosevich 

STUBB’S had nailed the curtains down in all the booths so people would quit wiping there greasy bbq hands on the curtains. 

Tom T Hall never told STUBB’S as long as they were friends that he was a vegetarian.  

One night At STUBB’S, Joe and Tom played a pool tournament with an onion as cue ball in STUBB’S back room where he kept all the food to cook with . The pool table was back there and sometimes served as a bed for STUBB’S when he couldn’t make it home. 

I secretly stole the cue ball that night when tom and joe were in the back playing pool continuously –thinking they would come out front and play music for all the people waiting to hear them since there was no cue ball. It was in my back pocket. 

Instead Joe found a bag of onions and pulled one out and grabbed a broom for a cue stick. They continued to play pool. 

Tom T. won because Joe scratched the cue ball/onion.

Then Tom wrote “The Great East Broadway Onion Championship of 1978”

R.I.P. Tom T. Hall