In Memory of Tom Goodwin

I’m sad to say that Tom Goodwin has passed away.  I  had the fortunate pleasure and honor of playing with Tom over the last four years at Open Mic and Jam Nights.  He loved the blues, country and rock.  He was a great teacher and an excellent musician.  Years ago during the first come, first serve fishing era  he was a fixture in the local music scene playing night after night at Carls.  Tom told me great stories of playing music back then and all around Alaska, even playing several bars in my home town of Kenai.
I was only able to find one picture of us playing at the sports bar, and as I recall it was Halloween a few years back.  Tom Goodwin on guitar, Jim Fitch on the harp, Daniel Weirich on drums and I’m over there on the bass.   I have video of the same performance somewhere.  If I can find, it I’ll post it.

I can still here him singing and playing ‘Blues You Can Use’ and it feels like yesterday we were laying it down playing Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix and one of our favorite tunes – Jenny Jenny (867-5309).  Like so many others, I’m

going to miss him.

My thoughts and best wishes to his family and friends.

Well thanks to Darrell the video has been found.  I thought it was of the Halloween performance as mentioned above, but as it turns out it was from a different night.  Tom was an entertainer and always fun to play music with.  My apologies for the quality of the audio and video, as I’ve been reminded it was taken on a cell phone.