Stories, songs, and books by Tom Sykes

One Minute on the Long Road

Short, funny, honest stories about dreams, detours, getting older, starting over, and discovering you’re not the only one wondering what happened to the plan.

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NEW BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY VIDEO

7 Things You May Not Know About the Blue Ridge Parkway

It took 52 years to complete, nearly went through Tennessee, and includes a bridge built from the top down. Those are just three of the stories hiding along the Blue Ridge Parkway.

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A Long Hard Road Book

Tom Sykes spent much of his life chasing a dream that never quite had the decency to behave itself.
What followed was music, film, television, business, songwriting, family, successes, failures, reinventions, and more than a few wrong turns.
A Long Hard Road is a funny, candid look at what happens when the life you imagined runs headfirst into the life that actually shows up.
And if you've ever looked back at your own life and thought, “Well, that went differently,” you may recognize something of yourself here.

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Music

These are songs written from experience, not theory. Songs about movement, memory, regret, hope, survival, and the strange way life keeps teaching the same lesson until we finally get it.

If you like songs with heart, melody, and something real behind them, start here.
Listen to albums, singles, and selected songs from across Tom’s catalog.

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Videos and Documentary Work

Storytelling doesn’t always come in the form of a song.

This section includes documentaries, music-related videos, and projects built around places, people, history, and the kinds of stories that deserve a little more room to breathe. It all comes from the same place: a love of story, a respect for craft, and a belief that real things still matter.

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About Tom

I’ve spent a lifetime in music, media, and creative work, writing songs, producing projects, and learning more than I probably wanted to know about how the business really works.

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