[FM] Mark Humphreys/Tom Ianniello

[zollo]

Thanks to Mark Humphreys for his inspirational, 
expansive and graciously timely tribute to the great 
Tom Ianniello. Like Mark, Tom was and is one of the few true
nice guys in the L.A. folk music realm. Tom's club, The Iguana,
as so beautifully remembered by Mark, was a treasure. Physically
it wasn't obviously better than the paltry other venues in town
where songwriters could perform acoustically. But spiritually
there was an enormous difference there that any performer, and
any audience member, could instantly sense. It was a place where
songwriters could truly be heard, and for offering those of us
wanting to be heard -- and those wanting to hear good music --
this privilege, Tom deserves every tribute there is and more. 
Thanks to Mark for doing justice in words to Tom and the happy 
memory of the Iguana. 
 

PAUL ZOLLO